Functions
Patient safety organizations may use several approaches to reducing adverse events:
- Collect data on the prevalence and individual details of errors.
- Analyze sources of error by root cause analysis.
- Propose and disseminate methods for error prevention.
- Design and conduct pilot projects to study safety initiatives, including monitoring of results.
- Raise awareness and inform the public, health professionals, providers, purchasers and employers.
- Conduct fundraising and provide funding for research and safety projects
- Advocate for regulatory and legislative changes.
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“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)
“Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)