Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
 Modules  Module 3: The “Science” of Human Error
1. Introduction to Course
2. History of Patient Safety
3. The Science of Human Error
4. The Analysis of Medical Error
5. Evidence-Based Medical Practice
6. Communication and Information Transfer
7. Adverse Patient Outcomes
8. The Role of the Patient and Family
9. Environmental Safety in the Medical Setting
10. Safe Medical Practice In Ambulatory Settings

Ideally, Safety Should Be an Explicit Property of Systems

  • “Every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results that it does.”
    • -- Paul Batalden
  • Sadly, safety may rank below cost, efficiency and speed in the design of systems and technologies
 
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