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The nomenclature of safety and quality of care for patients with congenital cardiac disease: a report of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Database Taskforce Subcommittee on Patient Safety
Cardiology in the young, v 18(S2), pp 81-91
01 Dec 2008
PMID: 19063778
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Abstract
A large body of literature devoted to "patient safety" and error prevention exists and utilizes a nomenclature that can be applied specifically to the field of congenital cardiac disease and aid in the goals of increasing the safety of patients, decreasing medical error, minimizing mortality and morbidity, and evaluating quality of care. The purpose of this manuscript is to suggest and document a quality of health care taxonomy and the appropriate application of this nomenclature of "patient safety" to the specialty of congenital cardiac disease, with special emphasis on the following ten terms: morbidity, complication, medical error, adverse event, harm, near miss, iatrogenesis, iatrogenic complication, medical injury, and sentinel event. Each of these terms is commonly utilized in the medical literature without universal agreement on their meaning and relationship. It Is our hope that the standardization of the definitions of these terms, as they are applied to the analysis of outcomes of the treatments applied to patients with congenital and paediatric cardiac disease, will facilitate improved methodologies to assess and improve quality of care in our profession.
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- Title
- The nomenclature of safety and quality of care for patients with congenital cardiac disease: a report of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Database Taskforce Subcommittee on Patient Safety
- Creators
- Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs - University of South FloridaOscar J. Benavidez - Harvard UniversityEmile A. Bacha - Boston Children's HospitalHenry L. Walters - Wayne State UniversityMarshall Lewis Jacobs - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Cardiology in the young, v 18(S2), pp 81-91
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- Children's Heart Foundation T32HL007572 / NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000266381300005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-63849116552
- Other Identifier
- 991021901514304721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
- Pediatrics