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Jul 17, 2019 · Objective To systematically quantify the prevalence, severity, and nature of preventable patient harm across a range of medical settings globally. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources Medline, PubMed, PsycINFO, Cinahl and Embase, WHOLIS, Google Scholar, and SIGLE from January 2000 to January 2019. The reference lists of eligible studies and other relevant systematic reviews ...
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Medication errors. Medication-related harm affects 1 out of every 30 patients in health care, with more than a quarter of this harm regarded as severe or life threatening. Half of the avoidable harm in health care is related to medications (3). Surgical errors. Over 300 million surgical procedures are performed each year worldwide (6). Despite awar...
Patient harm in health care due to safety breaks is pervasive, problematic and can occur in all settings and at all levels of health care provision. There are multiple and interrelated factors that can lead to patient harm, and more than one factor is usually involved in any single patient safety incident: 1. system and organizational factors: the ...
Most of the mistakes that lead to harm do not occur as a result of the practices of one or a group of health and care workers but are rather due to system or process failures that lead these health and care workers to make mistakes. Understanding the underlying causes of errors in medical care thus requires shifting from the traditional blaming app...
Global action on patient safety
Recognizing patient safety as a global health priority, and as an essential component of strengthening health systems for moving towards universal health coverage, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA72.6on “Global action on patient safety” in May 2019. The resolution requested the Director-General to emphasize patient safety as a key strategic priority in WHO’s work across the universal health coverage agenda, endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day...
Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030
The Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030provides a framework for action for key stakeholders to join efforts and implement patient safety initiatives in a comprehensive manner. The goal is “to achieve the maximum possible reduction in avoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally”, envisioning “a world in which no one is harmed in health care, and every patient receives safe and respectful care, every time, everywhere”.
World Patient Safety Day
Since 2019, World Patient Safety Dayhas been celebrated across the world annually on 17 September, calling for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. The global campaign, with its dedicated annual theme, is aimed at enhancing public awareness and global understanding of patient safety and mobilizing action by stakeholders to eliminate avoidable harm in health care and thereby improve patient safety.
Jul 17, 2019 · As this review is specifically designed to understand patterns of preventable patient harm, comparisons with existing reviews focused on overall harm is problematic. 1 15 106 107 108 Although we concur that examining the nature of overall harm is important, increasing the emphasis on preventable patient harm (which is the most amenable form of patient harm) is critical in terms of designing ...
- Maria Panagioti, Kanza Khan, Richard N Keers, Aseel Abuzour, Denham Phipps, Evangelos Kontopantelis,...
- 10.1136/bmj.l4185
- 2019
- BMJ. 2019; 366: l4185.
The study by Panagioti and colleagues serves as a reminder of the extent to which medical harm is prevalent across health systems, and, importantly, draws attention to how much is potentially preventable. Moving forward, efforts need to be focused on improving the ability to measure preventable harm. This includes fostering a culture that ...
- Irene Papanicolas, Jose F Figueroa
- 2019
Feb 12, 2024 · One study reported that approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some preventable harm each year, while another estimated that >200,000 patient deaths annually were due to preventable medical errors.[2][3][4] Moreover, the reported cost of medical errors is wide-ranging, with some experts estimating $20 billion each year and others approximating healthcare costs of $35.7 to $45 ...
- Thomas L. Rodziewicz, Benjamin Houseman, John E. Hipskind
- Michigan State University COM, Kaweah Health
- 2021
- 2024/02/12
Jul 19, 2019 · Maria Panagioti and colleagues find that the prevalence of overall harm, preventable and non-preventable, is 12% across medical care settings. Around half of this is preventable. These data make something of a mockery of our principal professional oath to first do no harm. Working in clinical practice, we do harm that we cannot prevent or avoid ...
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May 25, 2012 · Type of harm. The three most prevalent preventable harms cited in the included studies were medication adverse events 26% (33/127 studies), central line infections 6% (7/127) and hospital-stay related venous thromboembolism 4% (5/127) where medication adverse events are defined as errors in prescribing, delivering or monitoring the effects of the drug, which is different from regular side effects.
