Health Care Management
Mitigating Liability through Proper Health Care Management
Learning from mistakes is not something that is accepted in health care. Near-miss and error reporting is an essential component of safety programs across safety conscious industries. Within health care, though, many physicians are often reluctant to engage in patient safety activities and be open about errors because they believe they are being asked to do so without adequate assurances of legal protection. Having proper health care management could better prevent inevitable human errors from reaching patients. But understanding the root causes of errors requires their divulgence in the first place. By having a solid management of health care some benefits includes surgical innovation and decreasing patient injury, accurate documentation, and efficient risk management. First let take a look at surgical innovation. The current practices in surgical innovation raise concems about the appropriate balancing of patient safety and medical progress. A review of the surgical and bioethics literature reveals disagreement about whether the practice of surgical innovation is in need of urgent attention, as well as varying opinions on the appropriate characterization of innovations (Mastroianni 354). Some critics have suggested that the risk of patient harm and the corresponding need for increased accountability are significant enough that surgeons should subject their approaches to some form of independent prior review and ensure that patients are specifically informed of the innovation during the informed consent process (Mastroianni 354). Mastoianni examines the implications of the earlier competing claims from a U.S. legal perspective, focusing particularly on how the legal system addresses patient safety concerns and autonomous decision-making of surgeons in the context of surgical innovation. The benefits of new procedures to current and future patients is something that must be balanced with the lack of
Learning from mistakes is not something that is accepted in health care. Near-miss and error reporting is an essential component of safety programs across safety conscious industries. Within health care, though, many physicians are often reluctant to engage in patient safety activities and be open about errors because they believe they are being asked to do so without adequate assurances of legal protection. Having proper health care management could better prevent inevitable human errors from reaching patients. But understanding the root causes of errors requires their divulgence in the first place. By having a solid management of health care some benefits includes surgical innovation and decreasing patient injury, accurate documentation, and efficient risk management. First let take a look at surgical innovation. The current practices in surgical innovation raise concems about the appropriate balancing of patient safety and medical progress. A review of the surgical and bioethics literature reveals disagreement about whether the practice of surgical innovation is in need of urgent attention, as well as varying opinions on the appropriate characterization of innovations (Mastroianni 354). Some critics have suggested that the risk of patient harm and the corresponding need for increased accountability are significant enough that surgeons should subject their approaches to some form of independent prior review and ensure that patients are specifically informed of the innovation during the informed consent process (Mastroianni 354). Mastoianni examines the implications of the earlier competing claims from a U.S. legal perspective, focusing particularly on how the legal system addresses patient safety concerns and autonomous decision-making of surgeons in the context of surgical innovation. The benefits of new procedures to current and future patients is something that must be balanced with the lack of
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