Question

Analyze current patient safety initiatives and best practices from Joint Commission, Medicare, and other agencies and develop two patient safety performance measures. The measures should be valid, measurable, and relevant. You must also identify your sources, specific initiatives, and justify why you developed the measures you did. Finally, evaluate and elaborate on how professional ethics play a role in patient safety initiates specifically for the chosen performance measures.

Answer 1

PATIENT SAFETY INITIATIVES:

1. Delegating Daily work in order to engage patients and staff throughout the health care systems, at all times, on reducing harm.
2. Assisting healthcare organizations with advancing knowledge, skills and competence of staff and patients by recommending methods that will improve quality and safety processes.
3. Encouraging and recommending proactive quality and patient safety methods that will increase accountability, trust and knowledge while reducing the impact of fear and blame.

PATIENT SAFETY PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

1. Electronic health record to rapidly start the work of root cause analysis after a serious adverse event has occurred.
2. outcome metrics can measure the incidence or prevalence of adverse events- harm experienced by patients as a result of interaction with the health care systems.

The above Measurement is used to evaluate the effectiveness of safety interventions, identify new or emerging safety threats or to determine whether patient safety is improving over time.