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A new frontier in healthcare risk management: Working to reduce avoidable patient suffering
Author(s) -
Card Alan J.,
Klein Victor R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 1074-4797
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.21207
Subject(s) - health care , risk management , frontier , risk analysis (engineering) , healthcare system , business , patient care , medical emergency , operations management , medicine , nursing , finance , engineering , economics , political science , economic growth , law
This article presents a new avenue for healthcare risk managers to drive improvement for patients and healthcare organizations alike: working to reduce avoidable patient suffering. It briefly describes the problem of patient suffering, differentiates between avoidable and unavoidable suffering, and suggests that common risk management tools can be used to tackle the problem. It also highlights a success story from one large health system.