
The phrase medical harm or iatrogenic illness can be seen as somewhat paradoxical in our expectation that medicine will benefit rather than harm us. You might argue that it is impossible to separate the chance of good from the risk of ill. But iatrogenic illness has come to be recognized as a significant source of patient risk. It has been demonstrated that medical errors can be ranked as an urgent widespread healthcare problem.
When errors occur the common reaction is to find and blame someone. However, at a more scrutinizing look even apparently single events or errors due most often to the convergence of multiple contributing factors. Blaming individuals does not usually solve the problem and the same type of error is likely to recur.
Errors resulting in injury are sometimes described as preventable adverse events, defined as, not due to the patients underlying condition. People, especially in the western societies, place great value in the belief that they are free agents, the captains of their own fate. Therefore medical mistakes have traditionally been blamed on individuals. However, accidents are generally the outcome of a chain of events, and faulty system design either induces errors or makes them difficult to detect. Systems that rely on error-free human performance are destined to fail. Errors may or may not result in adverse effects but can if analyzed and assessed properly lead to error reduction and thereby creating a safer health care system.
Current concepts in modern risk management suggest that accidents in complex systems result mainly from human interface problems. Building safety into the process of care is probably a more effective way to reduce errors than to blame individuals.
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