Substandard Patient Care or Health Care Delivery

Adverse Events in Healthcare

Introduction

Health care is an important aspect for every body and how it is managed has to be for the betterment of the society . Health care management thus means how the health facilities which include the hospitals , doctors nursing staff and the patients are handled pertaining health aspect

Patient safety is very important in the medical field . Adverse events can result in harmful effect on a patient . This is an area of concern in many nations that improving safety and quality in health care has become a

priority in many hospitals . In the medicine field , when surgery or chemotherapy is done it can always result in adverse event on the patient

Discussion

No one desires to cause it . It is usually quite harmful . An adverse event can be caused incorrect dosage of drugs . There are also times when the dosage is unsuitable . All these can be termed as a medical error Sometimes it can be termed as a side effect . This is especially when the effect is judged as a therapeutic or secondary . When it results from treatment , it can be termed as iatrogenic . They may occur when treatment is discontinued . Sometimes it occurs when the treatment is increasing or when it is starting (Gawande , and Thomas , 1999

Adverse event 's risk can be increased by using drugs that are contradicting . Sometimes doctors can have a negative prognosis of a disease because the patient has complications resulting from adverse event . This means that the patient will not react positively to the drugs given . A patient that is affected by adverse event has symptoms like weight gain or loss . One of the harmful effects is whereby the mortality of the patient is affected . There can be fluctuations in the patient 's enzymes . When the physiological , macroscopic and microscopic levels of pathogens are checked in a patient with adverse effect it will always show drastic changes . Some patients become All these changes may be irreversible or reversible . Such a patient 's susceptibility to foods , chemicals or procedures may be decreased or increased . It is usually not the initial patient 's condition but it is something that results from medical intervention . Adverse events on a patient are usually unintentional . When it results from healthcare management it is referred to as an injury that is iatrogenic . It is good to note that these adverse effects are preventable especially if they result from management error . This issue has raised a concern on the patient 's safety in many countries (Brennan and Laird 1991

These events are common to women who are delivering through caesarean They occur while the patients are in the theatre . In this case we find that there are various causes to adverse event occurring in theatres during operations . It has been noted that the doctors dealing with this section are usually tired because of increase in the number of complications during delivery . Some of them just work 24 hours increasing adverse event occurrence . Some of the surgeons are...