A new frontier in healthcare risk management: Working to reduce avoidable patient suffering.
J Healthc Risk Manag
; 35(3): 31-7, 2016.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26789746
ABSTRACT
This article presents a new avenue for healthcare risk managers to drive improvement for patients and healthcare organizations alike working to reduce avoidable patient suffering. It briefly describes the problem of patient suffering, differentiates between avoidable and unavoidable suffering, and suggests that common risk management tools can be used to tackle the problem. It also highlights a success story from one large health system.
Full text:
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pain
/
Patients
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Quality of Health Care
/
Risk Management
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
/
Risk_factors_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
J Healthc Risk Manag
Journal subject:
HOSPITAIS
/
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article