Measuring Patient Safety in Real Time

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Measuring Patient Safety in Real Time: An Essential Method for Effectively Improving the Safety of Care
​Classen DC, Griffin FA, Berwick DM. Measuring patient safety in real time: An essential method for effectively improving the safety of care. Annals of Internal Medicine. November 21, 2017. [Epub ahead of print]
The continuing evidence of preventable deaths due to medical error has led to recent calls to improve measurement of safety in hospitals. This need can be adequately addressed by harnessing health information technology. The authors argue that electronic health records (EHRs), which have been broadly adopted, offer the opportunity to measure all causes of harm in real time, and in the whole patient population - with minimal need for additional resources - allowing for robust measurement of patient safety and prompt intervention to reduce or mitigate harm.
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Triggers are a good thing, provided they have parameters to prevent alert fatigue.

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In our institution, we have automated triggers already in place in Cerner such as triggers for risk for fall, risk for pressure ulcers/skin breakdwond, sepsis, etc.

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Excellent leadership and vision to implement tools to measure real time patient safety indicators. Use the IBM i2 Analysis.

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