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111 - Clinical risk: from problem to opportunity

Autore/i: S. Dente

Rivista: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 5, N. 3-S1, 2009 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)

Pagina/e: 111

Every human action involves an element of risk: “Risk is the possibility that a negative event will occur and it can be measured as the relationship between the probability that a specific event will occur and the extent to which this event’s consequences will be negative”1. Nowadays, risk is considered to be a social issue because it is thought to be “socially unacceptable” and therefore it is placed among the major bioethical issues of our time. Medically speaking, doctor errors is almost never tolerated or accepted because it regards an individual’s health, or, in extreme cases, life or death. Any type of structure which offers healthcare, whether it be a hospital, clinic or home nursing scheme implies a high degree of risk. This is because the medical profession involves situations with a high degree of changeableness (also biological) and uncertainty which persist despite all recent technological and scientific advances and make the healthcare system more complex and vulnerable. For this reason, when we look for human error we often discover that this error was not committed by an individual but by an organization. In 2002, Cineas reported that organizational problems influences 70% of hospital error….

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