KNOW AND DOING –THE GAP HAS WIDENED! Healthcare today is far behind other high risk industries in its focus on ensuring basic safety. Adverse events ( resulting from omission.lapses,errors) in hospitals is similar to an air crash but the no root cause analysis and prompt preventable measures are instituted as is done in the aviation industry mishaps. Human life is involved in both.
Staff in healthcare is the most educated and committed workforce -we lack a safe system and do short sight management. Each individual has the promising prevention potential and this is not optimally utilized .There is no dedicated force devoted to improving and monitoring safety throughout the health care delivery system. Adverse events effects are separated in time and space from the occurrence so its not recognised by the health staff involved in patient care., Ideal and practice are interwoven but today…
