Patient Safety: We Have a Responsibility

Why Should We Have a Periodic Safety and Performance Program for Medical Devices

Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals.These devices used in medical centers and hospitals for monitoring and treatment of patients require periodic safety and performance checking in order to have confidence in their functioning and operation. Physicians need better accurate medical measurements in order to better diagnose diseases, monitor pati...

Customer satisfaction versus patient safety: have we lost our way?

The maturing science of the causes and consequences of boarding of admitted patients demonstrates unequivocally the dangers the patient may face when entering a crowded emergency department (ED). 1 Even the demonstration of increased mortality rates associated with crowding 2,3 has not compelled the hospital industry as a whole to implement policies and procedures to ameliorate crowding. Howeve...

Can we have a culture of patient safety without one of staff safety?

Can We Improve Patient Safety?

Despite greater awareness of patient safety issues especially in the operating room and the widespread implementation of surgical time out World Health Organization (WHO), errors, especially wrong site surgery, continue. Most such errors are due to lapses in communication where decision makers fail to consult or confirm operative findings but worryingly where parental concerns over the planned ...

Patient safety at 10 years: how far have we come? What's next?