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Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage
Published in Sanjeewa Padumadasa, Malik Goonewardene, Obstetric Emergencies, 2021
Sanjeewa Padumadasa, Malik Goonewardene
Accurate documentation of the events surrounding the PPH and management, with particular emphasis on timelines, is crucial for future reference. Moreover, debriefing of the woman, her partner and the staff is also a key aspect in the management. Risk management is important in order to highlight the strong aspects as well as shortcomings in the management, and to improve the quality of care. The importance of regular, systematic audits and simulation-based training cannot be undermined in a serious, life-threatening emergency such as a primary PPH.
Medical Physics Services in Radiation Oncology
Published in Kwan Hoong Ng, Magdalena S. Stoeva, Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021
Tomas Kron, Richard Dove, Matthew Sobolewski, Swamidas V. Jamema, Mulape M. Kanduza, May Whitaker
A business continuity plan (BCP) prepares an organization for an incident, emergency, or other crisis. It is part of a risk management program that aims to identify risks and controls. It pays particular attention to risks that an organization cannot control.
Policies, protocols and procedures
Published in Paul Bowie, Carl de Wet, Aneez Esmail, Philip Cachia, Safety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide, 2020
In recent years, major efforts have been made in most modern healthcare systems worldwide to improve the safety, effectiveness and reliability of patient care. In Scotland, these policy ambitions are clearly outlined in the national Quality Strategy and in the goals of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme.9 Building a safety improvement culture in practices will be a key factor in reducing preventable harm and enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the care we provide to patients.10,11 The National Patient Safety Agency recommends the integration of risk management activity within general practices as one way to achieve this: ‘manage your risks and identify and assess things that could go wrong by developing systems and processes documented in the practice Policies, Protocols and Procedures’.10
Latent trait models for perceived risk assessment using a Covid-19 data survey
Published in Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023
S. Bacci, R. Fabbricatore, Maria Iannario
During the past years, researchers have been analyzing risk intensively and from many perspectives. The main focus has been on risk assessment and risk management. The former involves the identification, quantification, and characterization of threats to human health and the environment. The latter deals with processes of communication, mitigation, and decision making. Public perception of risk plays a central role in risk analysis, bringing issues of values, process, power, and trust [61]. There are multiple conceptions of risk interpreted as a hazard, probability, and consequence. For several authors, the risk is seen as inherently subjective [39,66,76] or denoted as feelings in which affective reactions play the determinant role [65]. In this area, Weber [76] reviewed three approaches by which risk perception has been studied: the axiomatic measurement paradigm, the socio-cultural paradigm, and the psychometric paradigm. Within the psychometric paradigm, people make quantitative judgments about diverse hazards' riskiness, revealing their perspectives. Understanding people's judgment is needed to develop effective public policies since people respond only to the hazards they perceive [64]. Indeed, whereas experts base their judgment about riskiness on technical measurements, laypeople consider other hazard's characteristics in their assessment of risk, e.g. control over the potential damages, harmfulness for children, and irreversibility of effects [65].
The impact of accuracy and precision of analytical test methods on the determination of withdrawal periods
Published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2022
J. Barthel, S. Scheid, K. Schmidt, F. Schulz, W. Terhalle
The treatment of food-producing animals with a veterinary medicinal product (VMP) might lead to the occurrence of residues in foodstuffs such as meat, milk, eggs, or honey with potential relevance on consumer health, e.g. potentially harmful residues of antibiotics are very often the subject of public debate. In order to ensure consumer safety, various risk management strategies are utilised by regulatory authorities worldwide. These include e.g. the setting of tolerances in the United States of America or maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the European Union for residues of VMPs, and of withdrawal periods to ensure depletion of residues to acceptable concentrations (EC 2009, 2010; FDA 2016; EU 2019). In the European Union a MRL defines the maximum concentration of residues of a pharmacologically active substance which is legally permitted in food commodities at the time when they enter the food chain (EU 2017). Its derivation is based on a comprehensive risk assessment for the substance using exposure estimates and pharmacological/toxicological data to characterise the hazard (EC 2009, 2010; EU 2019). To ensure that an MRL in edible tissues, milk, eggs, and honey is not exceeded, a so-called withdrawal period (WP) for each VMP is established. This is the time period between the last administration of the VMP and the earliest possible time point for the production of marketable foodstuffs (e.g. slaughter, marketing of milk, or harvesting honey) (EMA 2021, 2022).
The Effects of a Psychodrama-Based Risk Management Training Program on the Knowledge and Practices of Turkish Nurses in Psychiatric Clinics
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Risk management in healthcare services is described as the process of enhancing patient care quality in hospitals; ensuring a high level of patient and employee safety; determining, identifying, analyzing, and assessing potential risks; taking necessary measures; and monitoring and examining the results (Briner & Manser, 2013; Mental Health Division, WA Department of Health, 2008; Risk Management in Mental Health Services Guidance Document (RMI), 2009; Department of Health Government of Western Australia, 2005; Van Rensburg & Van Der Wath, 2020). To improve healthcare, the Joint Commission International (JCI) was founded in 1998, and International Patient Safety Goals were also established in 2006 (Joint Commission International, 2017). Within the scope of these objectives, identifying risks related to patient, employee, and facility safety and risk management processes that should be followed are included (Joint Commission International, 2017).