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- Medical_harm abstract "Medical harm refers to either physical or psychological or financial harm caused to patients by health care. It could be caused by a failure in the health care system or it could be caused by the health care professionals without any system failure or even in the absence of a system. Sometimes patients are harmed as a result of a system succeeding in protecting itself.Medical harm is not limited to iatrogenic illness.Medicine may be a long way from creating the cognitive tools necessary for solving this problem when authorities as respectable as The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) define medical harm as the “[u]nintended physical injury resulting from or contributed to by medical care (including the absence of indicated medical treatment), that requires additional monitoring, treatment or hospitalization, or that results in death. They consider such an injury to be harm whether or not it is considered preventable, whether or not it resulted from a medical error, and whether or not it occurred within a hospital.” With this definition, IHI estimates that “15 million instances of medical harm occur each year” in the United States. With a different definition would the number be larger? One must wonder whether having the word "unintended" define the concept means that injuries caused intentionally were not counted. Also, of concern is qualifying it as harm only if it requires additional monitoring, treatment or hospitalization. Sometimes debilitating injuries are not treatable and so do not require additional monitoring, treatment or hospitalization. A cleaner and more inclusive definition of harm may be in order.The trend in medicine has not been for definitions to be inclusive. It has been to exclude much from the definition including the people within the system and define harm purely as a systems problem with none of the people in that system being part the problem. This disenfranchises the people in the system. Recent research shows that people often make mistakes because they are not considered part of the system.While it is thought that some progress has been made in recent decades in determining the best ways to reduce incidents of medical harm, the number of patients unnecessarily bankrupted, disabled or killed each year has not declined. Some advocates, including Dr. Barbara Starfield and Dr. Lucian Leape, believe that additional measures are necessary to reduce preventable harm. So far proposed measures mostly involve systems management and/or the management of the people within those systems, like more systems change in hospitals and other healthcare facilities; financial incentives or disincentives; and creating a national regulatory body with mandated incident reporting. Elsewhere are proposed systems that do not require managing health care systems or trying to persuade health care professionals to report problems, but instead gather the information by other means and inform patients of where the problems are so that patients can avoid them.".
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- Medical_harm comment "Medical harm refers to either physical or psychological or financial harm caused to patients by health care. It could be caused by a failure in the health care system or it could be caused by the health care professionals without any system failure or even in the absence of a system.".
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