This course is designed to provide healthcare professionals with a clear understanding of medical errors, the significance of their effect on both patients and healthcare providers, and how to identify common medical errors and their prevention using root cause analysis.
At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:
- Discuss medical error and its statistical significance
- Enumerate common types of medical errors
- Know how the proper reporting of medical errors
- Use of the root cause analysis tool in identifying medical errors and ways to prevent their occurrence
- Know what special patient populations need for their safety
- Know the perceptions of the general public about medical errors
- Know what steps will a practitioner do when he /she commits a medical error