Paediatria Croatica, Vol. 64 No. 3, 2020.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.13112/PC.2020.30
Improving patient safety in clinical and laboratory practice
Mateja Šegović
Anica Džajić
Giorgije Petković
Sažetak
Patient safety involves a set of procedures taken to avoid incidents (unintended adverse events) in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, in order to ensure the desired treatment outcome. Possible adverse events in hospital treatment are three times more common
among paediatric patients than among adults, especially when dosing medications. Patient safety can be considered one of the
major challenges in healthcare, especially today when the world is facing a pandemic of disease COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease
form 2019). In order the unwanted errors to be identified, they need to be defined and classified. Errors in clinical practice that affect
patient safety can occur before patient treatment, during patient treatment (diagnostic and therapeutic errors), but also after
patient treatment. Errors are caused either by the actions of health care staff (sometimes by non-health care staff ) or by the noncooperation of the patient at all stages of health care. Errors in laboratory diagnostics can occur in all phases of the laboratory cycle:
in the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical phase. The classification of possible clinical and laboratory unintentional and
unwanted errors allows their identification, recording and implementation of corrective procedures, which will ultimately contribute
to improving patient safety
Ključne riječi
MEDICAL ERRORS; CLASSIFICATION; CHILD; COVID-19; PATIENT SAFETY
Hrčak ID:
251901
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.9.2020.
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