Patient Safety Essay
Prioritizing Patient Safety
Patient Safety – Start up:
“Patient safety” the new mantra is now revealing out its structure as a major component to be concentrated by the health care providers. Patient Safety that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. Lack of patient safety – the silent killer having its impact more than any other disease or traffic accidents and it is holding a record of leading position in maintaining highest mortality in the world. Lack of patient safety is not a non- curable, it is preventable. WHO realized this and initiated “World Alliance for Patient Safety”, was launched in October 2005 at WHO Headquarters, as an outcome of …show more content…
From registration patient information has to be entered correctly. Even small factor has big impact in treatment procedures. For ex, instead of 54 years it is entered as 45 while typing, the impact has a lot of deviation in determining mortality factor while computing APACHE (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health evaluation) tool in ICU. Communication has to be considered as a key issue in medical errors as the transformation of information from Doctors to nurses in medications, from lab to doctor in results, from diet dept. to patient in food ordering etc. Patient also should cooperate in this information scenario, as they can get clarification about their treatment procedures if they have any doubt, provide right information about their health conditions, expressing allergies in medicines, already consuming medicines etc. It will help the doctor to prescribe the right combination of medicine along with already consuming medicines. Technological errors has to be avoided by conducting periodical calibration and testing of critical care equipments, evaluating the result of the equipments in comparing with 3 or 4 hospitals nearby as a process of counter checking, following quality assurance principles in testing systems etc. In concern to computers, ensuring the proper functioning of HIS (Hospital Information System), monitoring and reporting system. It will help us to track the operational system error and help us to eradicate it. Periodical evaluation of total information system and technology system help us to upgrade and to eliminate medical errors
Patient Safety – Start up:
“Patient safety” the new mantra is now revealing out its structure as a major component to be concentrated by the health care providers. Patient Safety that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. Lack of patient safety – the silent killer having its impact more than any other disease or traffic accidents and it is holding a record of leading position in maintaining highest mortality in the world. Lack of patient safety is not a non- curable, it is preventable. WHO realized this and initiated “World Alliance for Patient Safety”, was launched in October 2005 at WHO Headquarters, as an outcome of …show more content…
From registration patient information has to be entered correctly. Even small factor has big impact in treatment procedures. For ex, instead of 54 years it is entered as 45 while typing, the impact has a lot of deviation in determining mortality factor while computing APACHE (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health evaluation) tool in ICU. Communication has to be considered as a key issue in medical errors as the transformation of information from Doctors to nurses in medications, from lab to doctor in results, from diet dept. to patient in food ordering etc. Patient also should cooperate in this information scenario, as they can get clarification about their treatment procedures if they have any doubt, provide right information about their health conditions, expressing allergies in medicines, already consuming medicines etc. It will help the doctor to prescribe the right combination of medicine along with already consuming medicines. Technological errors has to be avoided by conducting periodical calibration and testing of critical care equipments, evaluating the result of the equipments in comparing with 3 or 4 hospitals nearby as a process of counter checking, following quality assurance principles in testing systems etc. In concern to computers, ensuring the proper functioning of HIS (Hospital Information System), monitoring and reporting system. It will help us to track the operational system error and help us to eradicate it. Periodical evaluation of total information system and technology system help us to upgrade and to eliminate medical errors