Health Sci - Interdisciplinary
HLTH 5610: Patient Safety Science
Lecture - 3 credits
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- Examines healthcare as a high-risk industry, where complex healthcare systems attempt to meet the complex needs of diverse patients.
- Introduces the many drivers that influence the design and evolution of healthcare systems, particularly patient safety, which until recently was not typically recognized as one of these design drivers.
- Expands on the concept of complex systems theory and introduces the concept of high reliability organizations (HROs) and how they approach safety.
- Examines engineering strategies from HROs by studying how healthcare systems should adapt and retrofit to create safer systems of care delivery.
- Compares the challenges of improving patient safety at the system vs. the microsystem level.
- Examines diverse error-reducing strategies.
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