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Please make each answer is no fewer than 4 full sentences but no longer than 10 sentences. Long, run-on sentences will be considered as multiple sentences. Be clear and concise.
examples of Sentinel events are:-
1.Surgery or invasive procedure performed on the incorrect site
leading to serious hurt or death
2.Surgery or invasive procedure performed on the incorrect patient leading to serious hurt or death
3.Wrong surgical or invasive procedure performed on a patient leading to serious hurt or death
4.Unintended retention of a foreign body in a patient after surgery or invasive procedure leading to serious hurt or death
5.Hemolytic transfusion reaction from ABO incompatibility leading to serious hurt or death
6.Suspected suicide of a patient in acute medical specialty unit or acute medical specialty ward
7.Error in giving medication leading to serious hurt or death
8.Use of physical or mechanical restraint leading to serious hurt or death
9.Use of incorrectly positioned oro- or naso-gastric tube leading to serious hurt or death
Following are the impact of poor quality care in different levels:-
A.Individual : individual can acquire an infection during his stay in the hospital and become more vulnerable too.this thing lead to high mortality rates of the patients.This is because of poor hygiene, poor infection control practices and inappropriate use of antimicrobials.
Sentinel events also lead to these kind of situations where an individual has to suffer.
B.Family: Long stays in the hospital and illness associated with poor quality health care puts a lot of expenditure on families as well as health systems.This burden on families keeps on increasing.
C.Community: Lack of good quality care makes it very hard for people in the community to to have the quality of healtcare they want and lead to a lot of financial expenditure.
Poor healthcare can lead to delays in the treatment.Delays in getting care give rise to high treatment cost and culmination of complications.
What poor health care cause to individual family and community it is explained above.now as the people will stay sick,under financial burden, emotionally distressed they will be totally unhappy.This inturn make then live less ans they become less productive and won't contribute the GDP of nation.If this happens to a large population due to pour health care it will lead to downfall of economy of country.