Emotional harm from disrespect: the neglected preventable harm

Emotional harm from disrespect: the neglected preventable harm.

To cite: Sokol-Hessner L, Folcarelli PH, Sands KEF. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:550–553. INTRODUCTION Consider these actual patient experiences: ▸ A patient is admitted to the hospital for a bowel obstruction from a known malignancy. She calls her cancer specialist about this complication, but he is unavailable. A covering provider reading from her file says ‘your cancer is untreatable’. This is the f...

The Future of Emotional Harm

Why should tort law treat claims for emotional harm as a second-class citizen? Judicial skepticism about these claims is long entrenched, justified by an amalgam of perceived problems ranging from proof difficulties for causation and the need to constrain fraudulent claims, to the ubiquity of the injury, and a concern about open-ended liability. To address this jumble of justifications, the law...

Preventable hospital admissions related to medication (HARM): cost analysis of the HARM study.

OBJECTIVE Adverse drug events (ADEs) can cause serious harm to patients and can lead to hospitalization or even death. ADEs are a burden not only to patients and their relatives, but also to society and have the potential to involve high costs. To provide more information on the economic burden of preventable adverse drug events of outpatients, we performed a cost study on the data collected in...

Measuring preventable harm: helping science keep pace with policy.

Protecting Adolescents From Harm

Context.\p=m-\Themain threats to adolescents' health are the risk behaviors they choose. How their social context shapes their behaviors is poorly understood. Objective.\p=m-\Toidentify risk and protective factors at the family, school, and individual levels as they relate to 4 domains of adolescent health and morbidity: emotional health, violence, substance use, and sexuality. Design.\p=m-\Cro...