Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
 Modules  Module 7: Adverse Patient Outcomes
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

Document All Elements of Consent - What Would You Want to Know?

  • Benefit: Reduce pain and allow broken bone to be set
  • Risk: Reasonable, foreseeable risks
    • Common: Nausea
    • Bad: Inhale vomit and die
  • Alternative: Waiting several hours for operating room
    • Include risk/benefit of that…
 
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