Patient safety forum: examining the evidence: do we know if psychiatric inpatients are being harmed by errors? What level of confidence should we have in data on the absence or presence of unintended harm?
Patient safety forum: examining the evidence: do we know if psychiatric inpatients are being harmed by errors? What level of confidence should we have in data on the absence or presence of unintended harm?
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患者安全论坛：检查证据：我们是否知道精神病住院患者是否因错误而受到伤害？
作者：
D. Bates;M. Shore;R. Gibson;C. Bosk
编者按：在5月出版的《精神病服务》杂志上，本杰明·格拉索医学博士，和他的同事报告了一项研究的结果，该研究表明，精神病住院患者因用药错误而受到伤害的风险很大。格拉索博士和大卫W.贝茨医学博士敦促所有精神科医生更多地了解用药错误，并在他们工作的机构中仔细检查错误检测方法。为了鼓励人们关注精神病学中的医疗错误，我们邀请格拉索博士担任《患者安全论坛》的客座编辑，这是该杂志的一个新的不定期专题，专家讨论者在其中讨论这一领域的重要问题。对本月论坛作出贡献的是大卫W。贝茨医学博士布里格姆妇女医院普通内科主任和哈佛医学院医学副教授（电子邮件，dbates@partners.org）;海岸，医学博士，他是哈佛医学院的布拉德精神病学教授和肯尼迪科学院的访问学者。
Editor's Note: In the May issue of Psychiatric Services Benjamin Grasso, M.D., and his colleagues reported the results of a study showing that psychiatric inpatients are at substantial risk of harm from medication errors. An accompanying Taking Issue piece by Dr. Grasso and David W. Bates, M.D., urged all psychiatrists to learn more about medication errors and to scrutinize methods of error detection in facilities where they work. To encourage attention to medical errors in psychiatry, we asked Dr. Grasso to be guest editor of Patient Safety Forum, a new occasional feature of the journal in which expert discussants address important questions in this area. Contributing to this month's forum are David W. Bates, M.D., chief of the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (e-mail, dbates@partners.org); Miles F. Shore, M.D., Bullard professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and visiting scholar at the Kennedy Sc...