TY - JOUR
T1 - Principles of pediatric patient safety
T2 - Reducing harm due to medical care
AU - Council On Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
AU - Mueller, Brigitta U.
AU - Neuspiel, Daniel Robert
AU - Stucky Fisher, Erin R.
AU - Franklin, Wayne
AU - Adirim, Chairperson Terry
AU - Bundy, David Gordon
AU - Ferguson, Laura Elizabeth
AU - Gleeson, Sean Patrick
AU - Leu, Michael
AU - Mueller, Brigitta U.
AU - Neuspiel, Daniel Robert
AU - Quinonez, Ricardo A.
AU - Rinke, Michael L.
AU - Shiffman, Richard N.
AU - Saarel, Elizabeth Vickers
AU - Tieder, Joel S.
AU - Yin, H. Shonna
AU - Franklin, Wayne
AU - Tieder, Chairperson Joel S.
AU - Adirim, Vice Chairperson Terry
AU - Ferguson, Laura Elizabeth
AU - Leu, Michael
AU - Mueller, Brigitta U.
AU - Phillips, Shannon Connor
AU - Quinonez, Ricardo A.
AU - Rinke, Michael L.
AU - Saarel, Elizabeth Vickers
AU - Yin, H. Shonna
AU - Franklin, Wayne
AU - Tieder, Joel S.
AU - Quinonez, Chairperson Ricardo
AU - Adirim, Vice Chairperson Terry
AU - Brown, Jeffrey M.
AU - Ferguson, Laura Elizabeth
AU - Leu, Michael
AU - Mueller, Brigitta U.
AU - Phillips, Shannon Connor
AU - Rinke, Michael L.
AU - Walsh, Kathleen Mack
AU - Yin, H. Shonna
AU - Berns, Scott
AU - Mistry, Kamila
AU - Moyer, Virginia
AU - Oyeku, Suzette Olu Busola
AU - Saffer, Mimi
AU - Schwalenstocker, Ellen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - Pediatricians render care in an increasingly complex environment, which results in multiple opportunities to cause unintended harm. National awareness of patient safety risks has grown since the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) published its report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in 1999. Patients and society as a whole continue to challenge health care providers to examine their practices and implement safety solutions. The depth and breadth of harm incurred by the practice of medicine is still being defined as reports continue to reveal a variety of avoidable errors, from those that involve specific high-risk medications to those that are more generalizable, such as patient misidentification and diagnostic error. Pediatric health care providers in all practice environments benefit from having a working knowledge of patient safety language. Pediatric providers should serve as advocates for best practices and policies with the goal of attending to risks that are unique to children, identifying and supporting a culture of safety, and leading efforts to eliminate avoidable harm in any setting in which medical care is rendered to children. In this Policy Statement, we provide an update to the 2011 Policy Statement “Principles of Pediatric Patient Safety: Reducing Harm Due to Medical Care.”
AB - Pediatricians render care in an increasingly complex environment, which results in multiple opportunities to cause unintended harm. National awareness of patient safety risks has grown since the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) published its report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in 1999. Patients and society as a whole continue to challenge health care providers to examine their practices and implement safety solutions. The depth and breadth of harm incurred by the practice of medicine is still being defined as reports continue to reveal a variety of avoidable errors, from those that involve specific high-risk medications to those that are more generalizable, such as patient misidentification and diagnostic error. Pediatric health care providers in all practice environments benefit from having a working knowledge of patient safety language. Pediatric providers should serve as advocates for best practices and policies with the goal of attending to risks that are unique to children, identifying and supporting a culture of safety, and leading efforts to eliminate avoidable harm in any setting in which medical care is rendered to children. In this Policy Statement, we provide an update to the 2011 Policy Statement “Principles of Pediatric Patient Safety: Reducing Harm Due to Medical Care.”
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U2 - 10.1542/peds.2018-3649
DO - 10.1542/peds.2018-3649
M3 - Article
C2 - 30670581
AN - SCOPUS:85061089475
SN - 0031-4005
VL - 143
JO - Pediatrics
JF - Pediatrics
IS - 2
M1 - e20183649
ER -