Dec 21
Patient safety is a medical discipline that has arisen in response to the increasing complexity of health care delivery processes, which is accompanied by an increase in the scale of harm to patients in health care settings. The mission of this discipline is to prevent and reduce the level of risk, the number of errors …
Dec 21
Key facts Adverse events caused by unsafe health care seem to be one of the 10 leading causes of death and disability worldwide (1). In high-income countries, it is estimated that 1 in 10 patients are harmed in inpatient care (2). Harm can be caused by a number of adverse events, almost 50% of which …
