Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

Liam Donaldson,Riccardo Tartaglia,Walter Ricciardi,Susan Sheridan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9

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Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

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Actions to improve patient safety have shown widely varying degrees of effectiveness
We do not differentiate between the terms “accident” and “incident,” where the former is generally used in high-risk industry referring to an event that affects quite a large number of victims, while the latter usually refers to individual harm
The causes of mortality are an excellent example of this rapid transformation: non-communicable diseases have become the leading cause of death, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data, but at the same time there are new problems emerging such as infectious diseases, like Ebola or some forms of influenza, which occur unexpectedly or without advanced warning

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Actions to improve patient safety have shown widely varying degrees of effectiveness. Thanks to a globalized world, the absolute susceptibility of the world population to a new virus and an unprecedented situation, the infection has spread worldwide, infecting until now (May 16th 2020) 462,660,327 people in 188 countries and killing 311,363 individuals [1] Skill sets such as patient safety management and quality of care are indispensable to battling the critical issues posed by the pandemic, as they. The PFPS Programme is a global network of committed patients, families, healthcare professionals, and policy makers who are connected by the common objective of promoting safer care through patient involvement They bravely advocate for and collaborate in patient safety efforts at the local, national, and international levels [9]. Meli Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Pisa Medical School Hospital, Pisa, Italy

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