Patient Safety and Risk Management in Mental Health

Alessandro Cuomo; Despoina Koukouna; Lorenzo Macchiarini; Andrea Fagiolini

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_20

Patient Safety and Risk Management in Mental Health

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In: Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021. Chapter 20.

2020 Dec 15.

Authors

Alessandro Cuomo¹, Despoina Koukouna¹, Lorenzo Macchiarini², Andrea Fagiolini¹

Book Editors

Liam Donaldson¹, Walter Ricciardi², Susan Sheridan³, Riccardo Tartaglia⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
² Private Practice, Bologna, Italy

Book Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
² Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
³ The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA
⁴ Italian Network for Safety in Healthcare, Florence, Italy

Excerpt

This chapter will review the most common adverse events that happen in a psychiatric unit and the safety measures that are needed to decrease the risk of errors and adverse events. The adverse events and errors that may happen in a psychiatric unit are unique and will be examined in detail. This section will also highlight the role of staff members and patients in preventing or causing the error.

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