Search Tag: surgical errors
Cost-savings-through-zero-preventable-deaths
2023 30 Aug
Instituting patient safety practices will save lives and healthcare dollars. We are proud of our healthcare experts; it is the system that needs to be fixed, and we can do that! We can create a system where safe, high-quality healthcare is delivered to every patient every time. Healthcare must become a high-reliability organisation, and this starts...Read more
Study-explains-role-of-human-behaviour-in-surgical-errors
2015 04 Jun
A study conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers has identified 69 “never events” among 1.5 million invasive procedures performed over five years and has discovered that there are 628 human factors that contributed to the errors. The findings of the study have been published in the journal Surgery. Surgical errors are called never events because they...Read more