The clinical safety of disabled patientsproposal for a methodology for analysis of health care risks and specific measures for improvement
- Bernardo Perea Pérez
- Elena Labajo González
- Manuel Bratos Murillo
- Andrés Santiago Sáez
- María Elena Albarrán Juan
- Manuel Alfonso Villa Vigil
ISSN: 1698-6946
Año de publicación: 2013
Volumen: 18
Número: 2
Páginas: 251-256
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Medicina oral, patología oral y cirugía bucal. Ed. inglesa
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Resumen
The clinical risks associated with health care have been a known factor since ancient times, and their prevention has constituted one of the foundations of health care. However, concern for the risks involved in health care treatments has risen very significantly in recent years, becoming a modern current of concern for clinical health care risks which is referred to by the name of "patient safety" in the scientific literature. Unfortunately, there are no studies on patient safety in dental practice or case studies of adverse events in this practice. In addition to the lack of studies on adverse events in regular dental practice, there are even fewer references to treatment for disabled patients. In this article, we provide a "proposal for analysis" of the clinical risks associated with treating disabled patients, which will make it possible to evaluate the health care risks associated with the treatment of patients who have a specific disability, at one determined moment and in one specific environment.