What is the main cause of avoidable harm to patients?
What is the main cause of avoidable harm to patients?
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对患者造成可避免伤害的主要原因是什么？
作者：
G. Caldwell
作为一名医院顾问，我领导的团队帮助患者从心肌梗死、肺栓塞和胃肠道出血等疾病中康复。我不想伤害病人，不想让他们的病情恶化，也不想不必要地延长他们的住院时间。
自2009年3月在柏林参加医疗质量和安全国际论坛以来，我一直在思考并努力改善我的医生和护士团队为住院患者提供的护理。我们使用了一份“周到的清单”，以确保我们尽我们所能减少肺栓塞、耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌败血症和艰难梭菌腹泻等其他几种可以避免的伤害的机会。我们在编写处方图表时，大大提高了对细节和安全性的关注。所有这些都帮助我们更加小心，避免在治疗过程中伤害患者。
然而，I…
As a hospital consultant I lead a team that helps patients to recover from illnesses such as myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. I do not want to harm patients, make their illnesses worse, or unnecessarily prolong their stays in hospital.
Since attending the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare in Berlin in March 2009 I have been thinking and working hard to improve the care that my team of doctors and nurses give to inpatients. We have used a “considerative checklist” to ensure that we do everything we can to reduce the chances of pulmonary embolism, septicaemia from meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus , and diarrhoea from Clostridium difficile , among several other types of avoidable harm. We have greatly improved our attention to detail and safety in writing prescription charts. All this has helped us to be more careful to avoid harming patients during treatment.
However, I …