HLST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Patient Safety, Clinical Decision Support System, Electronic Health Record
15 Jun 2017
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Chapter 17: patient safety and health information technology. Safety is the minimization of the risk and occurrence of patient harm events. Harm is defined as inappropriate or avoidable psychological or physical injury to the patient and/or the family. Adverse events: an injury resulting from a medical intervention . Preventable adverse events: errors that result in an adverse event that are preventable . Overuse: the delivery of care of little or no value (e. g. widespread use of antibiotics for viral infections) Underuse: the failure to deliver appropriate care (e. g. vaccines and cancer screening: misuse: the use of certain services in situations where they are not clinically indicated (e. g. magnetic resonance imaging for routine low back pain)1-3. The terms inappropriate and avoidable must be defined in their clinical context. Although the proximate cause of a patient harm event is usually the actions or non- actions of an individual, significant patient harm events are rarely the result of a single failure.
