Qual Saf Health Care
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Qual Saf Health Care · Jun 2002
Value of a cognitive simulation in medicine: towards optimizing decision making performance of healthcare personnel.
Medical errors can be reduced or avoided by training in both factual knowledge and in optimal information processing. The latter is of special importance when task settings are complex, when information about a patient's condition is ambiguous and uncertain, and when rapid changes can occur. ⋯ The strategic management simulation (SMS) has been used worldwide with many high level professionals. Its application to assessing and training medical decision makers is discussed.
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Qual Saf Health Care · Jun 2002
The need for risk management to evolve to assure a culture of safety.
There is a need for the traditional risk management model, which focuses on department based risk assessment, loss management and risk financing, to evolve to enable it to become more responsive to the increasing demands for safety and accountability imposed on the current US healthcare system. The risk management focus must become more strategic and systems based, and less crisis orientated and individual provider based, in order to provide its greatest value to the organization and the patients those organizations serve.