Sentinel Event



Sentinel Event

Introduction

Patient safety is a critical component of health care; it is a complex activity because it combines aspects of the health system. The safety of health care is a process which focuses on the knowledge of the risks of adverse effects, eliminating and preventing unnecessary those are preventable through evidence-based interventions with proven effectiveness. The main risks factors of having an adverse event associated with care are the health conditions of patients, particularly the severity of the underlying disease and other co morbid conditions. Many of these patients, particularly those undergoing interventions in surgical and intensive care units ...