Identify a measurable patient-centered practice problem related to quality or safety and relevant to your practice setting that you will also address for your Capstone Paper, and post a brief description of the problem and an explanation why you selected it.
There are many measurable patient-centered practice problems related to safety or quality that are relevant to my practice setting, and one that I have identified and will address for my Capstone paper will be medical errors due to faulty systems/processes. The errors include incomplete or wrong/inaccurate diagnosis which leads to inaccurate management and treatment of patients. This may lead to injury, syndrome, infection, and many other undesirable outcomes that pose a major threat to patients’ well-being and health. In some cases, the final result of these errors is the death of the patients involved. According to Anderson and Abrahamson (2017), it has been ranked as the third leading cause of death in the United States. My selection of this problem was motivated by the fact that the errors have led to the death of many people and yet they can be prevented.
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Explain how the conversation you had with the key leader in your practice setting impacted your decision to address this particular practice problem
We looked at some of the recently conducted studies that showed that medical errors are responsible for approximately 251000 deaths in the United States. For instance, in 2016 a research studied indicated that the number of deaths due to medical errors stood at 251,454 deaths in the United States (Anderson and Abrahamson, 2017). Also, statistics from another follow study showed that medication errors due to medical errors featured among the most commonly made medical mistakes and they cause harm to more than 1.5 patients annually (Anderson and Abrahamson, 2017).
My conversation with the leader led to a common understanding, and we realized that the errors are costly even though they can be prevented from occurring. The prevention methods may be through observing hygiene, ensuring proper diagnosis by monitoring and troubleshooting the systems, and verification of medications before the patient is put o treatment (Joshi et al., 2008). This largely affected my decision to look into the problem and address it.
References
Anderson, J. G., & Abrahamson, K. (2017). Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors. In ITCH (pp. 13-17).
http://www.ihi.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Jqso-rA4QIVHh-tBh0FAwB5EAAYASAAEgJYSfD_BwE
Joshi, M., Ransom, E., Nash, D. B., & Ransom, S. B. (2008). The healthcare quality book: Vision, strategy, and tools. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
