<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Health Care Centres are institutions which, because of their specificity and character, are particularly exposed to various kinds of risk. One of the most important and most frequently used methods of risk management is the black spots method. The research material collected for the study comes from one of the hospitals in Wrocław. All hospital stays of the C22 (Face and Jaw Surgery Ward) and H05 (Injury and Orthopaedics Surgery Ward) settlement groups (DRG) were analysed - a total of 178 hospitalisations. The black spots method was used in the study, which consisted of risk identification, the ordering of threats and proposals for remedial actions. Using the black spots method, it was possible to identify adverse events that occurred during the hospitalisation of patients with H05 and C22 DRGs in the Injury and Orthopaedics Surgery Ward and Facial and Jaw Surgery Ward. In both cases, the treatment costs for patients with complications were higher than for the stays without complications.</p></abstract>

Health Care Centres are institutions which, because of their specificity and character, are particularly exposed to various kinds of risk. One of the most important and most frequently used methods of risk management is the black spots method. The research material collected for the study comes from one of the hospitals in Wrocław. All hospital stays of the C22 (Face and Jaw Surgery Ward) and H05 (Injury and Orthopaedics Surgery Ward) settlement groups (DRG) were analysed - a total of 178 hospitalisations. The black spots method was used in the study, which consisted of risk identification, the ordering of threats and proposals for remedial actions. Using the black spots method, it was possible to identify adverse events that occurred during the hospitalisation of patients with H05 and C22 DRGs in the Injury and Orthopaedics Surgery Ward and Facial and Jaw Surgery Ward. In both cases, the treatment costs for patients with complications were higher than for the stays without complications.

Managing the Risk of Adverse Events Using the Example of a Hospital in Wroclaw

The 4th Military Clinical Hospital with Policlinic SPZOZ in Wroclaw, Poland

Health Care Policy Department, Medical University of Lodz, Poland

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Health Care Centres are institutions which, because of their specificity and character, are particularly exposed to various kinds of risk. One of the most...

Managing the Risk of Adverse Events Using the Example of a Hospital in Wroclaw

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 155 - 166

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2014-0052

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