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Practice Management
Patient Safety Program
DURATION
3 hours
PROFESSION
Physician
# OF CREDITS
3
ACCREDITATION
EXPIRY DATE
2021-10-02
Learning objectives
After completing this lesson you will be able to:
- Recognize that patient safety is the basis of quality care
- Describe systems and the effect of complexity on patient care
- Use quality improvement methods to improve care
- Explain and manage clinical risk
- Discuss the cascade effect of errors that could lead to inappropriate care
- Discuss how human interactions with tools, procedures, and machines can have a serious effect on patient safety
- Discuss narrow risk margins of high-risk drugs and their inappropriate administration
- Discuss elements of a patient-centered approach to informed consent before surgery
- Outline strategies to reduce the risk of HAI