Surgical patient safety from the perspective of health surveillance — a theoretical reflection

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Heiko Thereza
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Siqueira, Helen Norat, Costa, Magda Machado de Miranda, de Oliveira, Diana Carmem Almeida Nunes, Gomes, Suzie Marie, de Sousa, Fabiana Cristina, dos Santos, Ana Clara Ribeiro Bello, Carvalho, André Anderson, Lopes, Daniel Idelfoncio Lima, Evangelista, Maria do Socorro Nantua
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vigilância Sanitária em Debate
• Texto Completo: https://visaemdebate.incqs.fiocruz.br/index.php/visaemdebate/article/view/124
• topic: Segurança do Paciente; Cirurgia Segura; Lista de Verificação de Segurança Cirúrgica; Evento Adverso; Vigilância Sanitária; Patient Safety; Safe Surgery; Surgical Safety Checklist; Adverse Event; Health Surveillance

With the aim of preventing healthcare risks, improving health, and promoting patient safety, various measures have been implemented. Patient safety is equated to the re-duction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with healthcare to an acceptable mi-nimum. An incident that results in harm to a patient is known as Adverse Event (AE). Surgery-related AEs remain to be a global public health challenge. In Brazil, the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) and Ministry of Health have delineated actions, po-licies, and health regulation to prevent AEs, including those resulting from surgical pro-cedures. In 2013, the National Patient Safety Program was established and the actions of patient safety were regulated by ANVISA. Despite progresses in the recently established national security policy for patients, further measures are still required to improve the quality and safety of surgical care. The creation and maintenance of a safety culture in healthcare services will assure safer surgical procedures. Thus, this study aimed to discuss the primary components related to healthcare quality and patient safety that are considered as priority in healthcare services and discuss strategies employed by the government to promote safe surgical care.