TAILIEUCHUNG - Patient Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology

With international funding, Dr. Mocumbi has already seen national lead- ership in pockets of Africa come together to refine strategies to improve health, and with local ingenuity, he avers, much more is possible. For example, an effort to train non–physicians to deliver care has the potential, Dr. Mocumbi believes, to help plug a gaping and deleterious hole in human resources capacity. Nurses with more than five years of experience and medical assistants with more than three years of experience, with additional train- ing, will be able to dramatically increase the medical and surgical services offered to those in need in Mozambique. It’s a tall order, but with ingenuity, partnership and adherence to what Dr. Pascoal. | Current Commentaries Patient Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology An Agenda for the Future Mark D. Pearlman MD The effect of medical errors and unsafe systems of care has had a profound effect on the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. From 1975 to 2000 medical malpractice costs for obstetrician-gynecologists have risen nearly four-fold higher than that of other medical costs. In addition it has been estimated that defensive medicine may cost society 80 billion per year. Most importantly many obstetrician- gynecologists are frustrated and seem to be abandoning the parts of their practice they perceive to put them at higher liability risk. This article discusses other medical specialty society efforts that have been successful in addressing the area of patient safety. Efforts to better track quality outcomes has been initiated by the American College of Surgeons through the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project and the American Society of Anesthesiologists has demonstrated both dramatically improved outcomes and reduced liability costs through a concerted patient safety effort. The author proposes See related article on page 1058. From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology the University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor Michigan. An earlier version of this essay was presented as the John Figgis Jewett Lecture of the Massachusetts Medical Society on July 20 2005. Corresponding author Dr. Mark D. Pearlman 1500 E Medical Center Drive L4000 Women s Hospital Ann Arbor MI 48109-0276 e-mail Pearlman@. 2006 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Published by Lippincott Williams Wilkins. ISSN 0029-7844 06 changes in four areas to specifically address patient safety in obstetrics and gynecology including the development of reliable and reproducible quality control measures and a system to track them national closed claim reviews to better understand and address the most important safety and liability areas for .

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