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Patient Safety Focus
Improving Medication Practices: The initial focus for improving Patient Safety at HCA was medication practices. The decision to focus on medication practices was based on data from the IOM study showing that medication errors were the most frequent type of medical error occurring in hospitals. Additionally, medication use processes exist in all HCA facilities, making this an issue to which all facilities could contribute. Finally, a good deal of research on medication errors and error prevention existed to inform our work. Therefore, HCA began an intensive focus on improving medication practices in 2000 believing that this was the area where we would have the greatest impact. Our experience with business function changes, such as shared services, taught us that meaningful improvement happens when effort, expertise, and resources are concentrated on a few important issues. The recommendations for improving medication use practices have taken two forms:
Improving Emergency Services: The focus for improving Patient Safety at HCA expanded in 2002 to include Emergency Services. This department was selected for the following reasons:
Recommendations for improving emergency services center around these areas:
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