Definitions of Terms Show This glossary provides definitions for a minimum number of terms that are considered essential to the discussion of Medication Incidents in the context of a Canadian medication incident reporting and prevention system today. Revisiting the selected definitions will be required periodically to align with national and international patient safety initiatives as they develop. Adverse Drug Event:Best Possible Medication History:
Cognitive Walkthrough:
Concerned Reporting:
Critical Incident:
Culture of Safety:
Dangerous Abbreviations, Symbols and Dose Designations:
Deprescribing:
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA):
Handoff:
Harm:
Hierarchy of Intervention Effectiveness:
High-Alert Medications:
Human Factors Engineering:
Incident Analysis:
Incident Management:
Independent Double Check:
Long-Term Care:
Medication Incident:
Medication Management: Medication Reconciliation:
Medication Safety:
Near Miss or Close Call:
Never Event:
No Harm Event:
Opioid Stewardship:
Root Cause Analysis:
Safety:
System:
TALLman Lettering:
1Collaborating parties for the development and implementation of the Canadian Medication Incident Reporting and Prevention System (CMIRPS) are: Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information and Health Canada. Who was the first known person to use the term preventable harm in healthcare?In 1854, Florence Nightingale used evidence-based quality improvement to reduce preventable harm in the Crimean War. This is in fact the first known use of the term preventable harm, we're going to go into more about this in a separate lesson. In 1910, Dr.
What are the patient safety principles?Patient-safety principles are scientific methods for achieving a reliable healthcare system that minimizes the incidence rate and impact of adverse events and maximizes recovery from such incidents [6].
What is quality and patient safety?Quality has been defined by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as “doing the right thing at the right time for the right person and having the best possible result.” Patient safety is simply defined by the World Health Organization as “the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients ...
Which of the following terms refers to the fair allocation of benefits and burdens of health care?Distributive justice refers to the fair and appropriate distribution of benefits, risks and costs within a society.
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