Warn Harm: Real-time warning system for avoiding patients and healthcare staff harm
Funders
Main funder
Academy of Finland
Leaders
Developing a predictive real-time warning system for avoiding patients and healthcare staff harm after medication safety incidents
Medication incidents cause significant harm to patients, health professionals and healthcare organisations. Incident reporting systems have been utilised globally to increase safety by learning from incidents. Such systems are not used to their full potential. This study moves towards next level utilisation of incident reporting systems by using them in real-time to warn of likely harm. This will be accomplished by producing a novel ‘warn harm’ taxonomy and trigger tool that can be translated into a practical predictive tool. Early-warning systems that use data from incident reports do not currently exist. Thus, this study offers opportunities for scientific breakthroughs. It will produce an innovative ‘warn harm’ taxonomy and trigger tool. This could potentially alert to additional avoidable harm that will increase patients’ well-being and safety, bring cost savings for health systems and society, as well as support staff members by decreasing emotional stress of the staff involved in errors.
Cooperation
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Professor Anne Marie Rafferty
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Professor Bryony Dean Franklin
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Professor, Associate Head of School, Research, Elizabeth Manias
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Head of Medical Centre, MD Marjo Kervinen, Kuopio University Hospital
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PhD, Docent, Patient safety manager Kaisa Haatainen
News
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The research group has started work and we are currently working on two systematic literature reviews / 8.2.2023
