RT Book, Section
A1 Gill, Rick
A1 McGinley, Marisa
A1 Ruland, Sean
A2 Salardini, Arash
A2 Biller, José
SR Print(0)
ID 1127043086
T1 Potential Harms to Physician and Patient
T2 The Hospital Neurology Book
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071845830
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127043086
RD 2024/04/24
AB Potential  harm  to  both  physician  and  patient  remains  a  constant  challenge  for  the  neurohospitalist.  Physicians  can  be  faced  with  violent  or  threatening  patients  where  a  strategic  approach  can  include  assessing  for  contributing  factors,  as  well  as  pharmacological  and  nonpharmacological  measures.  Inadvertent  risks  to  physicians  include  exposure  to  body  fluids  and  needle  sticks.  Precautions  have  advanced  along  with  our  understanding  of  transmissible  disease.  Patients  can  be  subjected  to  harm.  As  the  systems  of  delivery  and  diagnostic  and  treatment  modailities  become  more  complex,  the  opportunity  for  medical  errors  can  flourish.  Individual  errors  and  system  failures  can  result  in  serious  adverse  events  or  near-misses.  Hospital-acquired  conditions  can  be  infectious  or  noninfectious  and  generally  have  a  deleterious  effect  on  outcomes,  cost,  and  length  of  stay.  Evolving  health  care  policy  and  hospital  practices  aim  to  reduce  the  potential  for  harm.