6: Measuring safety
The critical role of measurement ‘You cannot manage what you cannot measure’ is a familiar and perhaps rather tired management mantra, but it certainly applies to improving safety and quality….
The critical role of measurement ‘You cannot manage what you cannot measure’ is a familiar and perhaps rather tired management mantra, but it certainly applies to improving safety and quality….
(GAWANDE, A. COMPLICATIONS. PROFILE BOOKS LTD, HOLT METROPOLITAN, 2002 AND PICADOR USA, APRIL 2003. REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION) Although there is a certain amount of work in industry on safety behaviours…
(REILING, 2006) BOX 12.1 The psychopathology of everyday things ‘The human mind is exquisitely tailored to make sense of the world. Give it the slightest clue and off it goes,…
The limits of memory The sheer quantity of medical information, even within a single speciality, is often beyond the power of one person to comprehend. People, that is, the human…
Conditions and drivers of change We have already reviewed the conditions that provide the necessary foundations for change in clinical microsystems. The transformation of an entire health economy requires that…
LEAPE ET AL. (1998) A somewhat lethal cocktail of impatience, scientific ignorance and naive optimism may have dangerously inflated our expectations of safety culture.(COX AND FLIN, 1998) Both these statements…
Defining patient safety Patient safety can, at its simplest, be defined as: The avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries stemming from the process of healthcare.(VINCENT, 2006) This…
(ADAPTED FROM BERWICK DM. “TAKING ACTION TO IMPROVE SAFETY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS.” PRESENTATION AT THE ANNENBERG CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES CONFERENCE, ENHANCING PATIENT SAFETY AND REDUCING…
(BERWICK DM. ‘‘TAKING ACTION TO IMPROVE SAFETY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS.’’ PRESENTATION AT THE ANNENBERG CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES CONFERENCE, ENHANCING PATIENT SAFETY AND REDUCING ERRORS IN…
(GAWANDE, 2002) BOX 10.1 Death of a child When I was an inexperienced registrar some eight years ago, a child died under my care. Her death was largely preventable, but…