Discussion Item- Quality Management in Health Care

According to recent studies, the following issues were revealed:

Medical errors occur in 2.9% to 3.7% of hospital admissions.

8.8% to 13.6% of errors lead to death.

• As many as 98,000 hospital deaths may occur each year as a result of medical errors.
• 2% of hospital admissions have a preventable adverse drug event resulting in: Increased LOS of 4.6 days, increased hospital cost of $4,700 per admission.
• Explain YOUR understanding to the following healthcare quality concepts:
• Human error.

Medical error.

Malpractice.

• Patient safety culture.