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In 2004, the World Health Assembly (WHA) founded the WHO Patient Safety international alliance in order to tackle issues of adverse effects in unsafe healthcare. [6] The Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care [7] and the Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care [8] focused on access and quality.
In addition to addressing quality and safety issues found in adult patients there are a few characteristics that are unique to the pediatric population: [120] Development: As children mature both cognitively and physically, their needs as consumers of health care goods and services change. Therefore, planning a unified approach to pediatric ...
Goal 1: Identify patients correctly. Goal 2: Improve effective communication. Goal 3: Improve the safety of high-alert medications. Goal 4: Ensure safe surgery. Goal 5: Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections. Goal 6: Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls. [2] [4]
The National Patient Safety Goals is a quality and patient safety improvement program established by the Joint Commission in 2003. The NPSGs were established to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety.
A patient safety taxonomy was developed to classify data on patient safety problems. Prevalence studies conducted on patient harm in ten developing countries. A WHO Collaborating Centre was established to develop and disseminate safety solutions. [5] The WHO Draft Guidelines on Adverse Event Reporting and Learning Systems. [6]
Patient safety work product includes any data, reports, records, memoranda, analyses (such as root cause analyses), or written or oral statements (or copies of any of this material), which are assembled or developed by a provider for reporting to a PSO and are reported to a PSO; or are developed by a patient safety organization for the conduct ...