Medical errors
Saving Lives In Slow Motion
English - September 17, 2021 02:00 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Mental Health health wellbeing medicine doctor care lifestyle medicine meaning behaviour change wisdom Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Medical errors are common and need to be minimised. They are the 3rd commonest cause of death in the USA.
In this episode I look at why these errors happen and what we can do to prevent them.
Links:
Patient safety (WHO): https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety
Surgical safety checklist (WHO): https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/patient-safety/research/safe-surgery/tool-and-resources
Martin Bromiley’s charity looking at human factors: https://chfg.org/chfg-history/
PIP implant update: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57179180
Consent: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment/
PALS (NHS): https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/what-is-pals-patient-advice-and-liaison-service/
HealthWatch: https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/what-we-do
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