4th Semester → Others Patient safety

L3: Systems and effect

L3 (system) :

_🔴Why health care is a complex system :

1-diversity of tasks

2-diversity of patients ,clinicians

3-vulnerability of patients

4- variability or lack of regulations

5-increase specialization of health care professionals

_🔴Approches of iatrogenic injury :

1-Traditional (person) approach : الدكتور اللي غلطان

2-Systemm approach : فيه ميت سبب غير الدكتور وده الصح

_🔴Swiss cheese model :

The model shows that a fault in one layer of the system of care is usually not enough to cause an accident. Adverse events usually occur when a number of faults occur in a number of layers

_🔴Reason’s defences :

Layers of multiple defenses to prevent error from reaching patient (ده اللي هيصلح الجبنة )

_ high reliability organization (HRO):

organizations that operate in hazardous conditions but manage to function at a level of hazard that is almost completely “failure free” that is they have very few adverse events(بتشتغل في الظروف الخطيرة بس بتمشي الدنيا من غير مصايب الحمد لله )

_🔴Characteristics of HRO:

1-preoccupation with failure

2-commitment to resilience

3-sensitivity to operations

4-culture of safety in which individuals feel comfortable