Adverse events among Winnipeg home care clients

dc.contributor.author	Johnson, Keir	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-12T19:06:47Z
dc.date.available	2012-06-12T19:06:47Z
dc.date.issued	2005	en_US
dc.degree.discipline	Public Administration	en_US
dc.degree.level	Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.)	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The topic of patient safety has recently received considerable attention in Canada, the United States, and several other countries. Most studies in this area, however, focus exclusively on hospitals, with few investigating the safety of other health care sectors, such as home care. The integrating theme for this study is that no part of the health care system, including home care, is free of adverse events (AEs). Before measuring patient safety in home care, this study sought to translate hospital-centric patient safety concepts to the home care environment. A context-appropriate approach to measure AEs in home care was developed--this used chart reviews prompted by a mixed screening process--and these methods were applied to a sample of clients from the Winnipeg Health Region to describe the incidence, type, severity, cause, preventability and ameliorability of AEs in home care.	en_US
dc.format.extent	viii, 129 leaves :	en_US
dc.identifier	(Sirsi) 22021	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1993/7936
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.rights	open access	en_US
dc.title	Adverse events among Winnipeg home care clients	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
local.subject.manitoba	yes	en_US

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