Economic Outcome and Return on Investment for Medical Safety

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This study, first, focused on the fact finding and analysis about the investment of human resources, materials and the systems, and its outcome with respect to the patient clinical outcome, emergency system and medical team building at hospitals. After that, we intended to identify the economic return on the investment for safety environment from the view point of comparative observation among western countries and Japan. In this study, we took notice on the medical simulation as a significant example of the investment for patient safety. We tried to propose the ideal evaluation concept and an example of economic outcome as the return on safety investment in medical care and simulation education through the repeated communication with foreign scholars and researchers.