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A complex adaptive healthcare system (CAHS) is a care delivery enterprise with diverse clinical and administrative agents acting spontaneously, interacting in nonlinear networks where agents and patients are information processors, and actively co-evolve with their environment with the purposed to produce safe and reliable patient-centered outcomes.
By gathering data about errors made, then collating, grouping and analyzing them, it can be determined whether a disproportionate amount of similar errors are being made. If this is the case, a contributing factor may be disharmony between the respective systems/routines and human nature or propensities. The routines or systems can then be ...
These lists include items which are somehow related to statistics however are not included in this index: List of statisticians; List of important publications in statistics; List of scientific journals in statistics; Topic lists. Outline of statistics; List of probability topics; Glossary of probability and statistics; Glossary of experimental ...
The National Patient Safety Agency encourages voluntary reporting of health care errors but has several specific instances, known as "Confidential Enquiries", for which investigation is routinely initiated: maternal or infant deaths, childhood deaths to age 16, deaths in persons with mental illness, and perioperative and unexpected medical ...
Other latent variables correspond to abstract concepts, like categories, behavioral or mental states, or data structures. The terms hypothetical variables or hypothetical constructs may be used in these situations. The use of latent variables can serve to reduce the dimensionality of data. Many observable variables can be aggregated in a model ...
A list of events was compiled by the National Quality Forum and updated in 2012. [3] The NQF’s report recommends a national state-based event reporting system to improve the quality of patient care. Artificial insemination with the wrong donor sperm or donor egg; Unintended retention of a foreign body in a patient after surgery or other procedure
Taylor and Francis. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list Dekker, S.W.A. (2005). Ten Questions About Human Error: a new view of human factors and systems safety .
A 2006 PriceWaterhouseCoopers report for America's Health Insurance Plans (a health-insurer trade association) used the 2 percent figure and an extrapolation from the Kessler and McClellan report to estimate that the combined cost of insurance and defensive medicine accounts for 10 percent of total health care costs in the U.S. [51]