Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
 Modules  Module 4: The “Analysis” of Medical Error, and Implementation
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

Human Factors and Safety Engineering

  • Understand that we are usually trading bad set of problems with better set of problems
  • Disciplines to help guide your diagnosis AND treatment
  • Guidelines about relative effectiveness
    • Weaker interventions
    • Intermediate interventions
    • Stronger interventions
  • Tools to prototype and pilot before making things worse
 
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