Physician Impairment and Rehabilitation: Reintegration Into Medical Practice While Ensuring Patient Safety: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians

2019 ◽  
Vol 170 (12) ◽  
pp. 871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Candilis ◽  
Daniel T. Kim ◽  
Lois Snyder Sulmasy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Physician Impairment

scholarly journals Enhancing Patient Safety by Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections: The Role of Discovery and Dissemination

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Healthcare Associated Infections ◽  
Science Base ◽  
Healthcare Associated ◽  
National Approach

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) take a major human toll on society and reduce public confidence in the healthcare system. The current convergence of scientific, public, and legislative interest in reducing rates of HAI can provide the necessary momentum to address and answer important questions in HAI research. This position paper outlines priorities for a national approach to HAIs: scrutinizing the science base, developing a prioritized research agenda, conducting studies that address the questions that have been identified, creating and deploying guidelines that are based on the outcomes of these studies, and then initiating new studies that assess the efficacy of the interventions.

scholarly journals Better patient safety: implementing exploration and exploitation learning in daily medical practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. e000015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayala Kobo Greenhut ◽  
Racheli Magnezi ◽  
Izhar Ben Shlomo
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation

Position paper on patient safety

2020 ◽  
pp. ejhpharm-2019-001924
Author(s):  
Aida Batista ◽  
Piera Polidori ◽  
Stephanie Kohl
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Position Paper

scholarly journals Patient Safety Culture and Leadership within Canada's Academic Health Science Centres: Towards the Development of a Collaborative Position Paper

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Nicklin ◽  
Heather Mass ◽  
Dyanne Affonso ◽  
Patricia O'Connor ◽  
Mary Ferguson-Paré ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
Science Centres

scholarly journals Perception of patient safety among Final year MBBS students at King Edward Medical University Lahore

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Nasir Ahmad ◽  
Aabish Mehreen Khan ◽  
Muhammad Awais Asghar ◽  
Nosheen Nasir
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Do No Harm ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Ensure Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Perception ◽  
Healthcare Practice ◽  
Medical University

Introduction: Patient safety is a vital part of healthcare. It is vital for the medical students that the concepts of the “Do no harm” theory must be understood. Those that do not understand this ultimately perform poorly in healthcare practice. Therefore, it is very important that medical students must be tutored for the concept of good medical practice.Objective: To assess the patient safety perception among medical students in a public sector Medical College.Methods: A sample size of 179 medical students (n=179) from the final year were selected. A questionnaire tool was used to calculate the understanding of medical students. Participants' responses were recorded and computed into SPSS 19 for descriptive analysis.Results: About 55% of participants indicated a lack of knowledge regarding patient safety.25% of the medical students could not understand the type and nature of the iatrogenic error in providing good healthcare and exercising good medical practice. Also, 57% and 48 % of medical students were unable to understand that how to explain the iatrogenic error to patients, their attendants,s and their superiors respectively and 59% did not know that patient safety can be improved by targeted medical practice.Conclusion: The majority of the medical students in final year MBBS were unaware of patient safety and how to improve it. However, they showed keen interest in understanding it and applying the concept of good medical practice to ensure patient safety. KEYWORDS: Patient safety, undergraduates, knowledge, attitude

scholarly journals Gross negligence ‘medical’ manslaughter in Ireland: Legal context and clinician concerns

2021 ◽  
pp. 096853322110570
Author(s):  
Mary-Elizabeth Tumelty ◽  
Eimear Spain
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Defensive Medicine ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Patient Safety Incidents

In recent years, the prospect of the criminal prosecution of medical practitioners for patient safety incidents resulting in fatality which occur in the course of clinical practice has caused heightened anxiety among medical practitioners, particularly in England and Wales, where a number of high-profile cases have raised public consciousness of this issue. The full impact of this landscape on individual practitioners and the delivery of healthcare has yet to be ascertained, although research suggests that medical practice has been impacted. Of particular interest is the phenomenon of defensive medicine which occurs where physicians adopt assurance and/or avoidance behaviours in an attempt to minimise the risk of medical negligence litigation and/or to avoid complaints to regulatory bodies. While defensive medicine is traditionally conceived of in a civil context, the possibility of criminal prosecution for patient safety incidents resulting in fatality may also result in alterations to medical practice. Drawing on the findings of an empirical study (a survey), this research sought to explore the impact, if any, of the threat of criminal prosecution on surgical practice in the Republic of Ireland, including a potential rise in defensive practice.

scholarly journals The quality and safety of locum doctors: a narrative review

2019 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 462-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Ferguson ◽  
Kieran Walshe
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Care Patient ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Narrative Synthesis ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
Staffing Levels

Summary Locum doctors are often perceived to present greater risks of causing harm to patients than permanent doctors. After eligibility and quality assessment, eight empirical and 34 non-empirical papers were included in a narrative synthesis to establish what was known about the quality and safety of locum medical practice. Empirical literature was limited and weak methodologically. Locums enabled healthcare organisations to maintain appropriate staffing levels and allowed staffing flexibility, but they also gave rise to concerns about continuity of care, patient safety, team function and cost. There was some evidence to suggest that the way locum doctors are recruited, employed and used by organisations, may result in a higher risk of harm to patients. A better understanding of the quality and safety of locum working is needed to improve the use of locum doctors and the quality and safety of patient care that they provide.

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