Objectives

• Identify the main security issues related to diagnostic errors.
• Identify security issues in the different phases of patient evaluation: patient access, anamnesis, physical examination, complementary laboratory and imaging tests, evaluation and prioritization, referral or consultation, and follow-up.
• Identify the main medication errors.
• Characterize the international perspective regarding clinical security goals and priorities: ECRI Institute, AHRQ, Joint Commission International, and the International Patient Safety Goals, as well as pain as a patient safety issue.
• Characterize security from the patient's perspective.
• Define strategies for communicating errors to patients.
• Identify tools to support second victims as an institutional commitment to patient safety.
• Design a patient safety improvement program.
• Describe medication safety and the main international background.
• Identify medication safety issues in its different phases.
• Analyze and apply preventive strategies to reduce medication safety issues and the main barriers faced by professionals and patients.
• Descriure aspectes bàsics de la seguretat quirúrgica com a àrea destacada de la millora de la seguretat dels pacients en general.
• Explorar l'aplicació d'estratègies de millora en seguretat quirúrgica.
• Explicar les infeccions relacionades amb l'atenció en salut (IRAS) com a problema de seguretat i revisar les estratègies per a la seva prevenció i el paper dels diferents serveis i professionals en la prevenció i control de les IRAS.