Clinical Risk Management in Healthcare Power Point Presentation 2022

Clinical Risk
Management in
Healthcare
CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT, PATIENT SAFETY
AND PRINCIPLES OF RISK MANAGEMENT

Introduction: What is Clinical
Risk Management?
It is the process of reducing and limiting the potential healthcare risks and
harms to patients, via (Government of Western Australia, 2019):
1. Identification of potential errors which may occur in healthcare,
2. Evaluating the factors influencing the occurrence of these errors,
3. Taking insights from previous experiences of negative health outcomes
and adverse health events,
4. Administering necessary action for preventing repetition of such
outcomes, and,
5. Ensuring the prevalence of a system which are free from risks or where
such risks are reduced.

Why is it important for
Patient Safety?
1. CRM is crucial in healthcare due to the critical nature of work
environments as well as possibility of life or death in a patient.
2. Prevalence of preventable errors can inflict fatal patient health outcomes,
loss of patient satisfaction and trust, low patient influx and resultant
financial losses in healthcare organizations.
3. CRM strategies help healthcare organizations to avoid incurring large
financial expenditures both for the management as well as for the
patients.
4. CRM strategies in healthcare is closely associated with reduced likelihood
of errors, reduced likelihood of adverse patient healthcare outcomes and
thus, improved deliverance of healthcare interventions which are safe,
clinical effective and patient-centered (Trevino et al., 2018; Walker et al.,
2018).

Types of Risks in Healthcare
Risks across healthcare professionals
1. Absence of providing the correct diagnosis.
2. Absence of correctly interpreting or reviewing results of patient
assessments (Flannigan, 2018).
Risks across healthcare outpatient as well as inpatient departments
1. Errors in correct medication administration.
2. Healthcare associated infections due to lack of adequate disinfection
practices.
3. Lack of correct or timely handover communication practitioners, families,
patients and staff (Pankiewicz-Dulacz et al., 2018).