2. Introduction to Patient Safety

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Lonika Sood
MBBS MHPE FACP · Course Director, LMH 521
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Overview

Improving the quality of patient care starts with providing safe, error free, medical care. However, humans in all high decision-making professions make unintentional errors. The practice of medicine is a complex, high-risk endeavor, and providing safer care must be based on designing systems of care that make it hard to “do the wrong thing” rather than relying only on the skills of  human providers.

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Patient safety: Why it matters

required reading

Patient Safety: Why it matters. PowerPoint

  1. Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors.  
  2. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.  
  3. Errors in Medicine.  

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