Never
events April 25, 2017 -- What's a "never event"? It's one that should never happen, a failure by a caregiver or organization, technically termed a serious reportable event. The National Quality Forum calls itself "...a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to catalyze improvements in healthcare" and it identifies 29 never events. Of particular interest to med-surg nurses -- considered important measures of quality (or lack thereof) -- are falls (4E in the above-linked document) and bedsores (4F). Fascinating reading! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798