Preventable Harm

Reducing the risk of patient harm associated with the delivery of healthcare is of great importance. Simulation can help test processes improvement initiatives that will help mitigate against preventable harm and help create a safer and more efficient healthcare delivery system.

In the USA, the Journal of Patient Safety estimates that there are between 210,000 and 400,000 deaths per year associated with medical errors in hospitals, making medical errors the third-leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer.

Timing in care provision can make all the difference and this is why many aspects of patient safety lend themselves to computer simulation, where processes can be modeled in a virtual environment and improvements tested without risk to patients to ensure that errors are designed out of the system.

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Simulating Patient Safety

Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that in developed countries as many as 1 in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care (World Health Organization, June 2014).

In this workshop we examined how other high risk sectors use simulation to improve safety and how simulation could be more widely applied in healthcare. We demonstrated simulations of delays, interruptions, adoption of best practice and interventions in sepsis.

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Improving Sepsis Outcomes with Simulation

Sepsis is more common than a heart attack, with over 200,000 deaths in US hospitals every year and it can be treated if diagnosed in time. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has identified sepsis as the most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals at over $20 billion annually.

Our disease progression simulation, which is built on peer-reviewed research evidence, helps staff to test their improvement interventions and anticipate what impact they will have on length of stay, cost and mortality.

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Patient Safety and the Role of Simulation

Research from other high risk industries shows that simulation is routinely used to reduce risk. Aviation, oil and gas, and maritime industries have a long history of using simulation in just this way. So why not healthcare? The published literature is scarce on the use of computer simulation to support improvements, although medical simulation is making an impact.

We wanted to address this and have spent the last 6 months researching and building simulation models which demonstrate how to improve patient safety using simulation.

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Simulation Models: To reuse or not to reuse?

Whether simulation models can be reused for similar problems is a controversial issue in literature.

This article reflects on our experience of re-using simulation models particularly in modeling pathways of patient care and discusses the results delivered and the benefits of reusable simulations.

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Simulation to Evaluate Great Care

Watch the webinar recording and access the simulation below to find out how simulation is helping to work towards a fully integrated service provision - with people at the center of the services that Leicestershire delivers.

Cheryl Davenport, Director of Health and Care Integration at Leicestershire County Council, talks about how simulation is helping to evaluate how emergency hospital admissions can be reduced.

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Improving Patient Care Pathways

The workshop looks at patient care pathways and demonstrates how simulation can combine process flow perspectives to include; services, clinical best practice, and the progression of patients through disease states to test the impact of improvement initiatives on patient care, outcomes, costs and resource utilization.

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Preventable Harm

Learn More About Simulation for Quality Care and Patient Safety

Simulating Patient Safety

Improving Sepsis Outcomes with Simulation

Patient Safety and the Role of Simulation

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Simulation Models: To reuse or not to reuse?

Simulation to Evaluate Great Care

Improving Patient Care Pathways

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