Patient safety and risk management in obstetrics and gynecology
Activity
Large Group Session
Large Group Session
To review common definitions in the language of patient safety. To highlight various aspects of risk in obstetrics and gynecology. To examine two programs currently available in obstetrics as prototypes to reduce risk: ALARM - (Advances in Labour and Risk Management) MORE (Management of Obstetrical Risk Efficiently).
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Tags
Basic Sciences
Adverse effects
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation
Discipline
Obstetrics and Gynecology
MCC Presentations
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Truth Telling
McMaster Program Competencies
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations
6.7 Incorporate cost, risk-benefit analysis and resource stewardship in patient and/or population-based care.
6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions
MeSH
Medical Errors [N02.421.450]
Patient Safety [N06.850.135.060.075.399]
