Improvements in the safety of patient care can help end the medical malpractice crisis in the United States

Dalton, George D.; Samaropoulos, Xanthia F.; Dalton, A.C.

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.10.005

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“…This analysis can tell us, whether the problem was caused by the ability of medical professionals, equipment failure, or shortcomings of the information system, or the arrangement of the work flow. All the records are not meant to punish those who made errors, but just serve as a source of learning [54]. After analyzing the records, we can suit the remedy to the case, suggest some training to unqualified staff, repair equipment, redesign the system, or find the inappropriate arrangements of work flow and modify the medical process.…”

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Design and Development of EMR Supporting Medical Process Management

Xiao-guang

Chu

et al. 2010

J Med Syst

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Current EMR system benefits physicians by facilitating order entry and reducing errors. It can improve the safety and effectiveness of medical services, but cannot manage the whole medical process and the quality of medical services. In addition to physicians, EMR should be designed for all medical professionals because medical services cannot be accomplished by physicians alone, but also requires the involvement of other medical professionals. Therefore, we applied PDCA, the famous quality management cycle to design a comprehensive and coherent EMR system which can be used throughout the entire treatment process. EMR with the PDCA Cycle can record every order state and every treatment procedure in order to monitor the whole medical process. This extends the safety from planning the treatment to fulfilling it. By analyzing the records, doctors and hospital managers can perfect the medical process and improve healthcare quality. The EMR we designed with the PDCA Cycle provides a record entry interface for physicians and a worksheet interface for nurses and other professionals. Every treatment procedure and every change of orders or tasks will be fed back to medical professionals. So information generated from the beginning to the end of treatment will link with each other to avoid any information islands. Furthermore, the EMR can display the additional information intuitively and real-timely without increasing the burden of medical professionals' work.

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Section: Discussion/conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and Development of EMR Supporting Medical Process Management

Xiao-guang

Chu

et al. 2010

J Med Syst

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“…The most significant factors aiming for rectifying the culture of punitive response to medical error include: culture of team work, educational perspective about every single medical event and considering it as an opportunity by which organizational weaknesses will be found and solved, eradicating fear of being blamed or expecting bad consequences following from error reporting through deep searching and using of root analysis technics, establishing an integrated system, not a person, with the purpose of investigating medical events within hospital, shifting mind framework of CEOs and clinical managers from this falls thought that punishment and reproach delinquent personnel would imply that they are responsible about patient safety issues [60] [56] [54] [55]. Accompanying with the idea that "human error is inevitable" (Bahrami, 2013, p.646), distance managers from interrogating personnel like a criminal and blaming them and transfers authorities to search for deficiency through processes, equipment, and in sum total the system of hospital [54] [61] [58]. Establishing an encouraging atmosphere with the aim that reporting errors from which learning process happens, not only bring any fear neither for reporter of the event nor for the main person in the process of event but so also stimulate personnel toward sharing and learning from medical events in the healthcare organization so that PSC experiment a massive growth in its pathway [57].…”

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“…Various factors and elements can cause absence of tendency toward error reporting including: awareness of patients about their rights within a health system [55] [58]. Health provider organizations' managers must make vast efforts in order that a supportive atmosphere for error reporting is established within an organization.…”

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Comparison of patient safety culture among psychiatric, general, and specialized hospitals of Tehran

Raeissi

Shakibaei

2015

IJBAS

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Patient safety culture (PSC) has been considered less than its significance within high risk health care facilities so far. The aim of this study was to firstly compare PSC among psychiatric, general, and critical/intensive care systems then, focus on common weaknesses between Middle East countries. The study design was cross-sectional which was executed by using of a two stage sampling frame. Researchers had 298 questionnaire completed (RR=62%) among three groups comprising nurses, nurse's aides, and laboratory personnel. The Farsi version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) questionnaire was employed in this study. Descriptive statistics, and One Way ANOVA were used aiming to analyze collected data by using of SPSS 20. The highest percent of composite mean scores in Specialized, Psychiatric, and Generals were 61.49%, 56.67%, and 55.69% respectively. Common weakest dimensions of PSC among the three groups of hospitals included: Non-punitive response to error (24.3%), Staffing (32.18%), and Communication openness (42.44%). There were no significant differences among means and variences of the three groups of hospitals. It can be concluded that health care systems may have no differences in PSC correspond to disparities in amount of risk and job pressure. An implication of this study is the possibility that PSC is mostly local, although some weaknesses between our study and Middle East seemed to be symmetrical.

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“…RFID is however applied to many other domains and new applications appear at a very high rate, notably in healthcare contexts. The pressure for a better traceability in this domain (though already of obvious importance) is growing fast for several reasons: new legislations in France force a new drug pedigree using at least DataMatrix codes, the Activity Based Costing (ABC) principle starts being effective in French public hospitals (FHF, 2008), the USA are facing their third malpractice crisis, physicians struggling to acquire malpractice affordable insurances [Dalton et al 2008] while a better traceability could reduce medical errors and improve the tracking of their causes. In this context, crossing the technological pitch of using smart objects is clearly an issue.…”

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Impacts of radio-identification on cryo-conservation centers

Housseman

Absi

Feillet

et al. 2011

ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul.

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This paper deals with using simulation as a decision support tool for estimating the impact of Radio Frequency IDentication (RFID) technologies within biological sample storage areas (called biobanks). Several indicators, including inventory reliability or human resource utilization, are compared and discussed for different scenarios of use of the technologies. A special emphasis is put on the so-called re-warehousing activity, which RFID makes possible and consists in reassigning tubes to empty sockets when boxes are emptied. For this particular activity, optimization algorithms are developed and embedded in the simulator. Results demonstrate the potential interest of RFID in biobanks and the value of simulation for estimating and optimizing such complex socio-technical systems. [housseman, absi, feillet, dauzere-peres] at emse.fr This paper deals with using simulation as a decision support tool for estimating the impact of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technologies within biological sample storage areas (called biobanks). Several indicators, including inventory reliability or human resource utilization, are compared and discussed for different scenarios of use of the technologies. A special emphasis is put on the so-called re-warehousing activity, that RFID makes possible and which consists in reassigning tubes to empty places when boxes are emptied. For this particular activity, optimization algorithms are developed and embedded in the simulator. Results demonstrate the potential interest of RFID in biobanks and the value of simulation for estimating and optimizing such complex socio-technical systems. CMP GEORGES CHARPAK C E N T R E M I C R O E L E C T R O N I Q U E D E P R O V E N C E S I T E G E O R G E S C H A R P A K

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Improvements in the safety of patient care can help end the medical malpractice crisis in the United States

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Design and Development of EMR Supporting Medical Process Management

Design and Development of EMR Supporting Medical Process Management

Comparison of patient safety culture among psychiatric, general, and specialized hospitals of Tehran

Impacts of radio-identification on cryo-conservation centers

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