TY - JOUR
T1 - Building safety into ICU care
AU - Pronovost, Peter
AU - Wu, Albert W.
AU - Dorman, Todd
AU - Morlock, Laura
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant (#U18HS11902-01).
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The Institute of Medicine's (IOMs) report, "To Err is Human," recently addressed patient safety in the United States, alerting the nation to the need for improved systems of health care. Seven main findings were addressed in this report, we focus on 3: (1) patient safety is a nationwide problem, (2) health care workers are not to blame, and (3) safety and harm are products of care systems. This article discusses systems in intensive care units (ICUs) and how these systems affect patient safety. We use a case example to outline the complex chain of medical and administrative system failures that can result in an adverse event. Then we discuss evidence linking ICU organizational characteristics with patient safety, focusing on how safer systems in ICUs can directly improve patient care.
AB - The Institute of Medicine's (IOMs) report, "To Err is Human," recently addressed patient safety in the United States, alerting the nation to the need for improved systems of health care. Seven main findings were addressed in this report, we focus on 3: (1) patient safety is a nationwide problem, (2) health care workers are not to blame, and (3) safety and harm are products of care systems. This article discusses systems in intensive care units (ICUs) and how these systems affect patient safety. We use a case example to outline the complex chain of medical and administrative system failures that can result in an adverse event. Then we discuss evidence linking ICU organizational characteristics with patient safety, focusing on how safer systems in ICUs can directly improve patient care.
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U2 - 10.1053/jcrc.2002.34363
DO - 10.1053/jcrc.2002.34363
M3 - Article
C2 - 12096370
AN - SCOPUS:0036296466
SN - 0883-9441
VL - 17
SP - 78
EP - 85
JO - Journal of Critical Care
JF - Journal of Critical Care
IS - 2
ER -