Risk informed design of patient safety practice in ambulatory care
The scope of ambulatory care practice in the United States has steadily increased over the past several decades. Ambulatory care has always involved a highly distributed collection of organizations, whose safety and quality substantially varies. The US Institute of Medicine has in repeated publications emphasized the importance of using risk informed approaches, which are used in industry, to eliminate, replace, isolate, engineer or administratively contain potential and actual risk and harm to patient care. Combined with sensemaking approaches, this model and supporting assortment of tools provide a robust capability to substantially improve the quality of US ambulatory care. In 2007, the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded over a dozen such initiatives as part of its Risk Informed Intervention program. This paper provides an important overview of risk informed approaches and how these tools are being used to facilitate quality improvement implementations across the US.
Robert J. Borotkanics James B. Battles
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Division of Health Sciences Info Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US De
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-10
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）