2. Risk Management
•Limit liabilities
•Limit financial loss
•Limit preventable harm
•A program designed to
reduce the incidence of
preventable accidents and
injuries; to minimize the
financial loss to the
institution should and injury
or accident occur
4. Preventable Harm
• 2 million pick up
infections in the
hospital (nosocomial)
because there is no
basic hygiene protocol
• 99,000 die in the US
each year of nosocomial
infections.
• 300,000 die each year
of preventable harm
5. Risk Management
• Help, or at least do no
harm.
– Hippocrates
• Toxicity
• Only dose makes the
poison
• How medications
interact
6. Types of Risk
• Bodily Injury
• Consequential Loss
• Property Loss
• Liability Loss
7. Bodily Injury
• Illness or injury to
Patient, Visitor or
Employee
• Workers Compensation
• Professional or
Institutional Negligence
8. Consequential Loss
• Loss of Key Personnel
• Vehicular Accidents
• Machine or Plant failure
• Interruption of Sole
Supplier
• Disacreditation
9. Property Loss
• Fire
• Weather
• Embezzlement
• Theft
• Sabotage
• Data or Record
tampering
10. Liability Loss
• Breach of
Confidentiality
• Breach of Contract
• Product Liability
• Professional or
Institutional Negligence
20. The Pronovost Checklist
• Central venous
catheters are used for
medications, blood, and
fluids and nutrition and
can stay in for days or
weeks. But bacteria can
grow in the line and
spread an infection that
kills one in five patients
that contract it.
• Wash hands with soap
and water
• Wear sterile clothing
• Clean patients skin
• Avoid veins in arms and
legs; use chest.
• Check line for infection
each day.
24. Risk Management and Healthcare
costs
• Malpractice insurance
• Physicians are
practicing defensive
medicine
– Risk averse
– Order every conceivable
test
• Driver of inflated costs
• Specialist and lack of
PCPs
26. Best way to manage Risk?
• Provide better care
• Share information
• Identify best practices
• Measure outcomes
• Define value
• Outcomes that matter
to patients/cost = value
• Identify dimensions of
quality