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 Engineering and “Actions”

  • Warnings and labels (watch out!)
  • Training (don’t do that)
  • Procedure changes (work around that)
  • Interlock, lock-in, lock-out, etc (let me design it so you can not do that)
  • What is the best action???
 
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