The architectural design of hospitals worldwide is centred around individual departments, which require the movement of patients between wards. However, patients do not always take the simplest route from admission to discharge, but can experience convol
Implementing interventions targeted to already overloaded staff members without removing potential low value care tasks will continue to threaten patient safety and care quality in hospitals31,32. For this reason and others, without the PT champion and mobility technician on the unit after the QI ...
But this is not an option in the field of medicine, as not all the medical data recorded at hospitals today are entirely digitized, and those that are have other complications like data source heterogeneity, data redundancy, and so on [58]. In our experience, data acquisition is a mostly ...
Even if we use the valid assessment tool to determine the risk of falls, it is difficult to prevent all patient falls because falls are caused not only by the patient’s action but also by external factors such as hospital environments. Although fall prevention in acute hospitals is a ...
When patients are at home, without the constant care and assistance provided by hospital staff, the onus of managing their disease falls upon themselves [47]. Consequently, a crucial aspect of their self-management revolves around a comprehensive understanding of the signs and symptoms associated ...
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However, more than 134 million adverse events occur annually in hospitals, resulting in 2.6 million deaths because of unsafe care [3]. These medical errors are the result of several deficiencies that hinder the full potential of the healthcare system; these include poor interoperability [4,5], ...
Background: Operating rooms (ORs) are healthcare areas that are high-risk regarding patient safety (PS). The prevention of PS errors such as wrong-site surgery, medication errors, and patient falls is important in the OR. Causes such as having insufficie
with the most common being falls (43.9%), followed by medication errors (25.2%). Among the PSIs reported to the HCN agencies, 44 were recorded on formal incident report forms, whereas 95 were reported as PSIs that required a response (e.g., injury care) but were not recorded on formal...
One of the fastest growing areas in health and healthcare is RPM systems. With the help of various medical sensors and devices, these systems can remotely monitor patients’ health status in real time. Traditionally, RPM systems have been applied to remote monitoring of patients in hospitals duri...