Redefining medical errors: the need for infrastructure changes and quality apologies

#MedicalErrors #InfrastructureChanges #QualityApology

Amber Gipson-Fine is a project manager.

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"But the pandemic clearly worsened patient safety, with Leapfrog's new assessment showing increases in hospital-acquired infections, including urinary tract and drug-resistant staph infections as well as infections in central lines ‒ tubes inserted into the neck, chest, groin, or arm to rapidly provide fluids, blood or medications."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/05/03/are-hospitals-getting-safer-new-report/70158933007/?_hsmi=256782465&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--TWj8q9rdd8OuGhHQ-xRGghV1qhz9Hbu5F-M_dMT6uU2cPiwfSfmLfbLpu9v1ox35MnvA4LAemY4FzJguL8TzT96Bcdg

#publichealth #medicalerrors #QI #patientsafety

@kimlockhartga

Reminded me of this story -
a young woman passed the appendicitis 'jump test' & as a result was misdiagnosed:
https://youtu.be/oh-Zt5CbQwM?t=245

#DiagnosticMomentum
#MedicalErrors