Identificando Falhas no Agendamento de Cirurgias Eletivas: A Experiência de um Hospital Público

Is it time to Rethink the Patient Safety Strategy Approach?

“…8 Significant progress has been made so far in detecting patient safety incidents in a variety of scenarios demonstrated that the percentage of avoidable patient safety range from 7.6 to 67% of them related to surgery and clinical procedures. [9][10][11] Medical literature indicates human failure as the main cause of the patient safety incidents, conditioned to deficiencies in the care system, which are evidenced by the organization's strategies and culture, work practices, quality management approach, risk learning with errors. Failures associated with infrastructure and equipment can also be related to incidents, but less often.…”