Partial Solutions for Patient Safety

Abstract

The theme of Chap. 8 of how to identify and safeguard patient safety against client inherent risks is complemented here with selected concrete methods and resources. We walk through the four dimensions – medical, personality, cognition, identity/authentication – and analyze methods and resources in use or apparently appropriate for use. Some promising approaches in pulmology, genetics, mental conditions, weak personality, cognition-adapted information, etc. exist next to others where either assessment of risk level or management of an existent risk is not handled responsibly, e.g. follow-up upon spurious gene scans or limitations in probing for adverse attitudes. Finally data privacy and confidentiality principles and how the client is involved for their protection are briefly addressed.