![]() Examples of adverse events that impact patient safety while also posing risk to healthcare organizations are: birth trauma diagnostic errors falls pressure ulcers and suicide. In HIROC’s taxonomy of healthcare organizational risks, patient care is one element of healthcare risk that an organization must address. ![]() Patient safety focuses in mitigating harm to patients risk management focuses on patient harm as a key priority as well as other types of risks.The risks to a healthcare organization’s objectives reflect a broad array of objectives including healing (and not harming) patients maintaining a safe environment for staff being fiscally responsible maintaining or adding services meeting applicable standards and regulations and maintaining a favourable public reputation.Things to Consider How patient safety overlaps with risk management In order to manage risk, one must consider multiple sources of information including patient safety and quality data.By fostering a culture where healthcare providers are empowered to speak up, risk managers can use incident reports and other sources of information to manage risk, influence key decision makers, and ultimately impact patient safety and quality care. Quality improvement focuses on achieving best possible outcomes this can be achieved through examining and managing risks to the healthcare organization. Threats to patient safety are a key element of a broad array of risks that healthcare organizations need to consider. ![]() Risk managers leverage the links between risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement. ![]()
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