title: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Reducing Risk of Harm.
abstract: Most medical errors and preventable adverse events represent failures of complex systems. Pediatric clinicians must ensure a safe environment for health-care delivery to children. To do so, they must recognize risk factors for errors and adverse events; ensure effective communication with patients, parents, and colleagues; heighten situation awareness; develop high-functioning, high-reliability teams; implement and employ technology carefully; and provide integrated, ongoing education to trainees.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences, Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Leonard
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007396:Internship and Residency; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D058996:Quality Improvement; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior