title: Patient safety and quality improvement in rehabilitation medicine.
abstract: Patient safety in medical settings has become a major concern. As more and more individuals seek rehabilitative care for their medical conditions or are referred to rehabilitation specialists with increasingly complex medical conditions, the issue of patient safety in the rehabilitation setting takes on added importance. This article introduces the concepts of patient safety, cognitive biases, systems thinking, and quality improvement as they apply to the rehabilitation medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kingsbrook Rehabilitation Institute, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, 585 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. acristian@kingsbrook.org
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cristian
authors.forename: Jonah
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D061214:Patient Safety; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012046:Rehabilitation; D060891:Root Cause Analysis