Dr Gordon Caldwell believes that patient safety should be an active process of checking for avoidable errors. In this blog for the hub, he describes how he developed a checklist for his ward rounds and how this became incorporated into the daily clinical review notes to ensure that all the important aspects of care on a team’s routine ward rounds are actively addressed.
The process of clinical consultation defines diagnosis and is crucial to patient safety and patient outcomes
However the process is frequently weak resulting in care erring off path. These indicators (taken from a paper in Postgraduate Medical Journal) could provide a way to identify weaknesses and areas for improvement.