RT Book, Section
A1 Suyderhoud, Johan P.
A2 Freeman, Brian S.
A2 Berger, Jeffrey S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1102570496
T1 Patient Safety
T2 Anesthesiology Core Review: Part One Basic Exam
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071821377
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1102570496
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  concept  of  providing  a  safe  clinical  environment  centered  on  the  patient  is  not  a  new  concept  in  the  field  of  anesthesiology.  In  fact,  the  profession  was  the  first  medical  specialty  to  both  identify  and  embrace  the  concept  of  patient  safety  as  a  central  tenant  of  its  clinical  and  research  mission.  The  terms  “patient  safety,”  “patient  safety  movement,”  and  “no  patient  shall  be  harmed”  all  came  from  the  founding  moments  that  led,  in  1985,  to  the  establishment  of  the  first  specialty-specific  organization  dedicated  to  patient  safety,  the  Anesthesia  Patient  Safety  Foundation  (APSF).  This  organization  has  been  the  model  on  which  all  subsequent  efforts  to  improve  patient  safety  throughout  organized  medicine  have  been  based,  including  the  establishment  of  the  National  Patient  Safety  Foundation  in  1997.  Anesthesiology’s  proximal  role  in  patient  safety  was  lauded  by  the  Institute  of  Medicine’s  Quality  of  Care  in  America  Committee,  which  published  To  Err  Is  Human:  Building  a  Safer  Health  System  in  1999,  which  singled  out  the  work  the  specialty  had  performed,  demonstrating  a  commitment  to  patient  safety  as  the  model  for  all  other  specialties  to  emulate.  Today,  patient  safety  is  arguably  the  strongest  driving  force  in  medicine  besides  cost,  and  serves  as  the  preeminent  metric  by  which  we  measure  clinical  outcomes.