| CODE | HSM5116 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Basic Principles of Clinical Risk Management | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Health Systems Management and Leadership | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The spectrum of untoward medical outcomes in modern day medical practice requires a reactive approach to risk reduction strategies as well as a proactive approach to identify risks in the hope of preventing incidents in the first place. The study-unit will also highlight the different process pathways in systemic risk reduction including identification of risk through incident reporting, patient feedback, clinician feedback, medico-legal cases, morbidity and mortality meetings, root cause analysis, trigger tool analysis and safety ward rounds. In addition, the study-unit will also address the process of failure mode and effect analysis and its application to specific care pathways in high risk medical care such as blood transfusion medicine. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to teach students how to adopt a systematic approach to risk management using recognised tools and frameworks to analyse clinical risk associated with specific care and service delivery processes. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply principles of clinical risk management through a reactive and a proactive approach; - identify contributory factors and root causes in clinical risk issues; - recognise the importance of data collection to mitigate clinical risk; - analyse clinical risk incidents from a human factors aspect; - plan clinical risk improvement strategies; and - predict likely barriers in the implementation of clinical risk strategies. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - analyse a medical incident to formulate specific action plans that mitigate the risk of a repetition of the same incident; - apply failure mode analysis to identify risk proactively; - formulate systematic risk reduction policies and processes that address common causes of morbidity in healthcare settings such as venous thrombosis, pressure ulcers and patient falls. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Vincent, C. (2001). Clinical Risk Management. 2nd Edition, BMJ Books, London - Vincent, C. (2010). Patient Safety. Wiley Books, London. Supplementary Reading: - Szostek JH, Wieland ML, Loertscher LL et al. A Systems Approach to morbidity and mortality conferences. Am J Med 2010; 123:663-668 - Ohrn a, Ericsson C, Andersson C, Elfstrom J. High rate of implementation of proposed actions for improvement with the healthcare failure mode effect analysis method: evaluation of 117 analyses. J Patient Safety 2015 Feb 24. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Ind Study, Group Learning and Tutorials | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Carmel Abela Sandra Buttigieg James Clark Kenneth E. Grech (Co-ord.) Simon Grima Tanya Melillo Ramon Mizzi Yves Muscat Baron |
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