One system's jump-start on tackling patient safety.
At Advocate Health Care in Oak Brook, IL, the issue of patient safety was already being addressed when the IOM's medical errors report came out. By identifying problem areas and implementing a policy used in industry called Failure Mode and Affect Analysis, Advocate was able identify and prioritize vulnerable departments and brainstorm the risk for human error. Task forces were assigned to each area, and analyses are now under way to determine problems and solutions.
D019985:Benchmarking; D003625:Data Collection; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012308:Risk Management; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance