Medical Error - Methods To Improve Safety and Reduce Error

Methods To Improve Safety and Reduce Error

Further information: Patient safety

Medical care is frequently compared adversely to aviation: while many of the factors that lead to errors in both fields are similar, aviation's error management protocols are regarded as much more effective.

  1. patient's informed consent policy
  2. patient's getting a second opinion from another independent practitioner with similar qualifications
  3. voluntary reporting of errors (to obtain valid data for cause analysis)
  4. root cause analysis
  5. Electronic or paper reminders to help patients maintain medication adherence
  6. systems for ensuring review by experienced or specialist practitioners
  7. hospital accreditation

Read more about this topic:  Medical Error

Famous quotes containing the words methods, improve, safety, reduce and/or error:

    “If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
    —Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    “How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
    —Joseph Heller (b. 1923)

    “To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery—even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness—is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)

    “The next work of Carlyle will be entitled “Bow-Wow,” and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: “There is no error in this Book.””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)