A PATIENT SAFETY REVOLUTION
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By Dr Azhar Al-Ani (MBChB, MBA), Senior Consultant, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, EAGM
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atient safety is one of the most fundamental principles of medicine as a profession. Hippocrates got it right thousands of years ago when he started his medical oath with “First, do no harm.” Fast-forward to now; while graduating medical students still recite some version of the Oath, the statistics of
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«As many as 780,000 surgical site infections occur each year, up to 60 percent of them preventable»
medical errors are sobering. Management and technology solutions are paving the way for a revolution in patient safety. I studied and practiced medicine in the
Middle East before moving to the UK and witnessed firsthand the importance of patient safety and how the public perception is no different here compared with the West.
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