Intensive safety effort cuts falls, ulcers, and drug errors at once-disgraced FL hospital.
Drug errors, hospital-acquired pressure injuries, and patient falls top the list of hospitals most frequent adverse events. Following a serious medical error in 1995, University Community Hospital in Tampa built a data-driven patient-safety program that has led to reductions in all three categories of error.
D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*