Economic Outcome and Return on Investment for Medical Safety

本研究首先对医院人力、物力、制度的投入及其对患者临床结局、急救系统和医疗队伍建设的影响进行了调查和分析。然后，我们打算从西方国家和日本的比较观察的角度来确定安全环境投资的经济回报。在这项研究中，我们注意到医疗模拟作为对患者安全投资的一个重要例子。通过与国外学者和研究人员的反复交流，我们试图提出理想的评估概念和经济结果的例子，如医疗保健和模拟教育的安全投资回报。

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.