Quick Course in Patient Safety

What is a medical error?

The Institute of Medicine provides two definitions:

• The failure an action to be completed as intended (such as giving the wrong medication when the prescription is written correctly), or

• The use of a wrong plan to achieve a goal. (i.e., prescribing the wrong medication.)

Medicare sharpened the definition of a medical error on Oct. 1, 2008 when it stopped reimbursing hospitals for several common preventable medical errors.  Medicare calls these “Never Events” — these should never happen to you or someone you love.

Hospital Acquired Infections of all kinds

Surgery Errors

Medicare’s decision shined a high beam light on patient safety and hospitals are making it a top priority.  But it’s a big job and every one of us needs to contribute to the safe circle of care in hospitals.

Decide to take an active role in patient safety today. Starting here with campaignZERO,  learn about how to help safeguard your loved ones in the hospital.  Take the simple steps we suggest to help make sure that Never Events never happen to someone you love.

• What’s the Harm in Health Care?

  One-third of all hospital patients are harmed or killed by accident every year in American hospitals -- about 13 million patients.

  
  Preventable hospital accidents claim almost 300,000 lives -- equal to 3 jets crashing every single day of the year in America, with no survivors.

  
  Most of these deaths and injury are among older patients, and most result from a strained health care system seriously short on nurses and other critical resources.
  

• Our Solution

  CampaignZERO offers simple explanations about how common hospital hazards occur and easy checklists to help families safeguard their loved ones' care in the hospital.

• Why Checklists for Families?

  Every patient needs a family member or friend with them in the hospital -- yet few of us are prepared for this important role.

  
  Our simple little checklists can be a big help.

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