EUROQUALITY ADVERSE EVENTS module, for the Health area with SAP platform and the vertical ISH.
EUROQUALITY ADVERSE EVENTS module, for the Health area with SAP platform and the vertical ISH.
ADVERSE EVENT: Unintentional, unintended injuries occurring during health care, which are more attributable to health care than to the underlying disease, and which may lead to death, disability, or deterioration in the patient’s health status , To the prolongation of the hospitalization time and to the increase of the costs and affectation of the quality.
PATIENT SAFETY: It is the set of structural elements, processes, instruments and methodologies based on scientifically proven evidence that tend to minimize the risk of suffering an adverse event in the health care process or to mitigate its consequences.
ALMOST EVENT: Any situation in which a continuous sequence of effects was stopped avoiding the appearance of potential consequences, errors that almost occurred, events that in other circumstances could have had serious consequences, or dangerous events that have not caused personal damages, although the Have been able to produce materials and serve as a warning of the possibility of adverse events occurring.
SENTINEL EVENT: It is an event of unanticipated occurrence that involves death or permanent permanent loss of function not related to the natural course of the disease or the patient’s underlying problem.
SAFETY BARRIER: An action or circumstance that reduces the probability of presentation of the near event or the adverse event.
CONTRIBUTOR FACTOR: Condition that facilitates or predisposes to an unsafe action, such as: patient with difficulty understanding instructions, lack of protocols, lack of knowledge or experience, poor communication between the health team, insufficient personnel to comply with a care process , among others.
UNSAFE ACTION: Conduct that occurs during the health care process, usually by action or omission of health team members. Its essential characteristics are: care departs from the limits of a safe practice and the deviation has at least the direct or indirect potential of causing an adverse event for the patient.
Have a technological tool that supports the management of adverse events and allows the traceability of each of the phases of the procedure in the HOSPITAL INSTITUTION.
This process is modeled in the HOSPITAL INSTITUTION with the management system. This begins with the entry into SAP of the report of a case by an official of the HOSPITAL INSTITUTION of a representative of an EAPB, continuing its process before the different responsible in charge of classifying, analyzing, rejecting, approving, closing and, if necessary Accepted as adverse event, generate action plan with commitments, notifications, follow-up and action plan.