Definitions for patient safety
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1. Patient safety

   Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting and analysis of error and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse events, often known as patient safety incidents, experienced by patients was not well known until the 1990s, when multiple countries reported significant numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls patient safety an endemic concern. Indeed, patient safety has emerged as a distinct healthcare discipline supported by an immature yet developing scientific framework. There is a significant transdisciplinary body of theoretical and research literature that informs the science of patient safety with mobile health apps being a growing area of research.

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1. Patient safety

   Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events was not well known until the 1990s, when multiple countries reported staggering numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization calls patient safety an endemic concern. Indeed, patient safety has emerged as a distinct healthcare discipline supported by an immature yet developing scientific framework. There is a significant transdisciplinary body of theoretical and research literature that informs the science of patient safety. The resulting patient safety knowledge continually informs improvement efforts such as: applying lessons learned from business and industry, adopting innovative technologies, educating providers and consumers, enhancing error reporting systems, and developing new economic incentives.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of patient safety in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of patient safety in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of patient safety in a Sentence

1. The VAs office:

   The Department of Veterans Affairs( VA) Office of Inspector General( OIG) has been working with our federal law enforcement partners to investigate the allegations of potential wrongdoing resulting in patient deaths at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.Va., at this time, we can not comment further on those activities. As is always the case, the VA OIG works with the department to identify and urgently address allegations related to patient safety. The care and safety of our veterans and their families remain our top priority.

2. Dr Barnouti:

   Also patient safety is compromised because the surgeons are distracted. it’s not always the support staff filming. I know at least five surgeons who do it themselves.

3. Dick Elsy:

   It is vital that we balance the twin imperatives of speed of delivery with the absolute adherence to regulatory standards that is needed to ensure patient safety, we are targeting production of at least 1,500 units a week of the Penlon and Smiths models combined within a matter of weeks.

4. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt:

   Our absolute priority is patient safety and making sure that the NHS delivers high-quality care 7 days a week – and we know that's what doctors want too, so it is extremely disappointing that the BMA have chosen to take industrial action which helps no-one.

5. Planned Parenthood:

   We all want to protect patient safety — this law doesn't do that, as the court recognized, politicians passed this law in order to make it extremely difficult for women in Wisconsin to get safe and legal abortions, plain and simple.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Safety
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=patient safety