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Sep 11, 2023 · “First, do no harm” is the most fundamental principle of any health care service. No one should be harmed in health care; however, there is compelling evidence of a huge burden of avoidable patient harm globally across the developed and developing health care systems. This has major human, moral, ethical and financial implications.
Jul 17, 2019 · Patient harm during healthcare is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality internationally.1 2 The World Health Organization defines patient harm as “an incident that results in harm to a patient such as impairment of structure or function of the body and/or any deleterious effect arising there from or associated with plans or actions taken during the provision of healthcare, rather than ...
- Maria Panagioti, Kanza Khan, Richard N Keers, Aseel Abuzour, Denham Phipps, Evangelos Kontopantelis,...
- 2019
Introduction. Healthcare-associated harm is an internationally recognised threat to public health and well-being. Across all income settings, as many countries aspire towards universal health coverage, attention has focused on the critical role of primary care-led healthcare systems to help achieve this goal.1 2 In countries like the UK, over 90% of clinical encounters are delivered in ...
- Anthony J. Avery, Anthony J. Avery, Christiana Sheehan, Brian Bell, Sarah Armstrong, Darren M. Ashcr...
- 2021
The growing emphasis on systems thinking over the past 20 years in healthcare17 has meant that there is now a significant body of evidence in the scientific literature (eg, retrospective interview studies, real-time observational studies and aggregated data from incident reporting studies) that can be used as an empirical basis for generating a classification of the contributory factors that ...
- Rebecca Lawton, Rosemary R C McEachan, Sally J Giles, Reema Sirriyeh, Ian S Watt, John Wright
- 2012
5 Observational study designs in this review: i) Prospective studies are longitudinal cohort studies that follow over time a group of similar individuals with respect to a certain outcome (e.g. harm) .
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May 25, 2012 · Background Mitigating or reducing the risk of harm associated with the delivery of healthcare is a policy priority. While the risk of harm can be reduced in some instances (i.e. preventable), what constitutes preventable harm remains unclear. A standardized and clear definition of preventable harm is the first step towards safer and more efficient healthcare delivery system. We aimed to ...
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May 20, 2020 · Patients reporting all three harms were 2.5 times more likely to have filed a report with a responsible authority (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.23-5.01) and 3.3 times more likely to have also experienced a surgical complication (95% CI = 1.42-7.51). Odds of reporting problems related to communication between clinician and patients/families ...
