...Asma Oumghar; Issam Izza Purpose The objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive analysis of risk management practices in the healthcare sector, with a particular focus on identifying challenges and strategies in Moroccan hospitals. Design/methodology/approach A literature search...

... are becoming more common in studies which examine safety (Staggs and Dunton, 2014 ; Leary et al., 2016 ; Cook et al., 2019). Datix is an incident reporting and risk management platform deployed in approximately 80 percent of NHS providers across England (Datix, 2019), to which members...

... Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Patient safety Drug errors Risk management Continuous quality improvement Nursing outcomes The prevention of medication errors is considered a worldwide high priority (WHO, 2008). The report “Preventing medication...

... identification practice, only limited studies are available; e.g., in an earlier study, risk management policy documents from East of England hospitals provided information on risk identification theory, which can reflect only limited information regarding real-world practices (Simsekler, Card, Ruggeri, Ward...

... in the final results of the chosen method. Such issues lead us to address the question on the usability and utility of inputs – structured brainstorming and SMAs – in prospective risk management tools in the healthcare context, particularly in the identification of patient safety risks. Therefore...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Training Patient safety Quality healthcare Policy Risk management Governance Assessing variations in service quality was first considered in the early twentieth century by Codman (Ballard et al., 2004). Healthcare safety...

...Lucy Ann Kielty Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a study which aimed to develop and validate an assessment method for the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 80001-1 (IEC, 2010) standard (the Standard); raise awareness; improve medical IT-network project risk management...

... rights only FMEA Intensive care unit Risk management Effectiveness Faced with increasing health system complexity and related processes in clinical settings, system failure has become a considerable issue. Such failures affect service recipients in different ways, ranging from near...

...Pierfrancesco Tricarico; Stefano Tardivo; Giovanni Sotgiu; Francesca Moretti; Piera Poletti; Alberto Fiore; Massimo Monturano; Ida Mura; Gaetano Privitera; Silvio Brusaferro Purpose – The European Union recommendations for patient safety calls for shared clinical risk management (CRM) safety...

...Graham R. Lee; Maria C. Fitzgibbon; Paula O'Shea Purpose – Internal quality control (IQC) represents an essential risk management tool within the total testing pathway (TTP) that contributes to the overall objective of assuring the quality of results produced in medical laboratories. Controlling...

... trending analysis and retrospective performance review (described later). Graham R. Lee can be contacted at: glee@mater.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Total quality management Quality measures Risk management Quality programmes Root cause analysis We consider some...

... institutions towards increasing access to quality HC and financing. Dr Augustine Adomah-Afari can be contacted at: augustineafari@yahoo.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Efficiency Risk management Quality health care Effectiveness Patient perception Finance/economics...

.... The extent of awareness of low patient literacy and the need for interventions can be best determined by research that ascertains literacy levels among patients. Brenda L. Lovell can be contacted at: lovellb@cc.umanitoba.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Clinical risk management...

... Forensic Cardiovascular risk Intervention Health services Risk management This was a pilot study conducted in a 15‐bedded male medium secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation unit. Physical health problems are common in patients with schizophrenia, among which cardiovascular events...

..., such as national or regional incident reporting systems, requirements that risk managers are employed and protection for “whistleblowers”, but there is variation in these elements' nature and scope (Legido‐Quigley et al., 2008). Overall, there is widespread agreement that improving patient safety...

... 2010 --> Medical diagnosis Ill health screening Public healthcare Risk management Article Type: News and views From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 23, Issue 2 Keywords: Medical diagnosis, Ill health screening, Public healthcare, Risk...

... Keywords: Patient safety practice, Quality healthcare, Risk management, Healthcare intervention Primum non nocere – First, do no harm. The phrase Primum non nocere is almost as old as the practice of medicine. Together with the principles of beneficence, autonomy...

..., a faith-based NGO, 74 percent of all deaths are due to waterborne diseases, including diarrhoea. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Healthcare improvement Risk management Public healthcare Article Type: News and views From: International Journal of Health Care...

... Risk management Medical education Article Type: News and views From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 22, Issue 6 Keywords: Patient safety, Risk management, Medical education The Health Ministry will implement a system this year to ensure...

... interventions would you suggest to reduce this rate?” The most important perceived reasons for the apparent difference in PCR rates were that: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Risk management Clinical audit Surgery Eyes Safety Singapore Cataract surgery is the most...