The increase in activity, greater complexity and severity of the patients treated by the Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery Departments (OTS) leads to an increase in adverse events among patients and in their severity.
A clinical safety plan must be available and the pertinent changes made in the organization in order to have the best introduction of clinical safety in OTS departments.
The Safety Plan should include tools to identify and evaluate health-care risks together with tools that prevent, or at least minimize, harm to patients. Experience has shown that there are many barriers for their introduction. To overcome these, we should introduce a new culture into the OTS departments propelled by exemplary leaders to enable the integration of clinical safety as a key component in health-care activities.
El incremento de actividad, la mayor complejidad y gravedad de los pacientes tratados por los servicios de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología posibilitan un incremento de eventos adversos en los pacientes y de su gravedad.
Para la introducción óptima de la seguridad clínica en los servicios de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología es necesario disponer de un plan de seguridad clínica y realizar los cambios oportunos en la organización.
El plan de seguridad ha de constar de instrumentos para la identificación y evaluación de los riesgos sanitarios junto con herramientas que prevengan o, en su defecto, minimicen.