Patient Safety Essay

Introduction

Patients admitted to hospitals and health care centers daily, some of them receive good quality treatment and some have a bad experience. The quality of treatment depends on the doctor’s knowledge and welling to give the patient’s rights and all the time he needs

Now a days with the technology and new devices, it created a complex health care system , and the doctors checklist changed somehow

Every year since 2012 WHO hold a patient Safety programme which aim for reflecting and prioritizing the key knowledge gaps and challenges that surround the safety of primary care. In the course of the meeting, the Expert discuss the available evidence on the burden of harm resulting from errors in primary care settings also they take in

The mistake was done with this patient is that when the GP took the patient’s history and asked her about any allergies from certain medicine. She denied that she had an allergy before from any medicine or food …. . and the Doctor’s done wrong when he prescribed her penicillin without allergy test .

So This case was an example for an error that can be managed easily if allergy test for the prescribed medicine was done before (at least the most common allergies toward drugs, or explaining allergies symptoms for non-educated patients )

For managing these types of errors . We need to start from the begging when patient is admitted to the hospital and take a careful history examination from the patient from the previous medicines he took to any family

when studying and analyzing the cases for these types of errors and what caused them we can come up with a map or a guidance to prevent and lower these errors and make sure to give the best kind of treatment for all the patients , so I can conclude them in few points after taking WHO and few reports as a reference :

• Put a special mark in each page or at the cover on the patient’s file who had previous allergy reaction before or write it in Bold text anything to make it very clear when reading the record or an alert in the file if it’s computerized system

• Take a minute to review the patient’s file over again before giving the prescription and the hospital or healthcare center should make it accessible everywhere in the system to allow the doctor look into it even in emergence situations , and if its hardcopies file they must make more than one copy stored in different places that is known for the GPs and even nurses .

• Update a system that force function error reduction strategy and make the allergy history alert mandatory entry in the system for Doctor and