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Professionalism: does it affect patient safety?
H YangProfessor & Chair
Department of Anesthesia
Conflict of Interest
• No payment by industry• No shares in industry
Objectives
• Understand progression of Professionalism• Review risks and successes in organizational
professionalism & patient safety• Discuss next steps
PROGRESSION OF PROFESSIONALISM MODEL
Lindenauer et al. NEJM 2005; 353:349 - 61
Progression of Professionalism
• Medical profession provides service; society appreciates & respects the medical profession
• Social contract – self regulation, oversight of medical education, disciplining of “bad” physicians, attaining & maintaining certificate (special knowledge); in exchange is the placement of patient needs above all else
Individual doctor code of conduct
Physician society, National or Provincial authorities
Hospitals, Institutions, Clinics, Depts
Morals & Ethics
PROFESSIONALISM & PATIENT SAFETY SUCCESSES
IOM Report 1999
“Health care organizations [to] develop a ‘culture of safety’ such that their workforce and processes are focused on improving the reliability and safety of care for patients.”
PATHOLOGICALwho cares as long as we ’re not
caught
REACTIVESafety is important, we do a lotevery time we have an accident
CALCULATIVEwe have systems in place to
manage all hazards
PROACTIVEwe work on the problems that
we still find
GENERATIVEsafety is how we do business
round here
Increasing Trust
Increasinglyinformed
Organizational types
Hudson, 2001
Collaboration & Communications
• Essential for professionalism• American Board of Internal Medicine,
European Federation of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, & American Society of Internal Medicine (Lancet 2002)– Personal responsibilities: collaborate respectfully
• Canmeds 2005 – Communicator
Collaboration & Communications
• CMA Medical Professionalism 2005 – “The relationship of physicians with their colleagues must be strengthened and reinforced. Patient care benefits when all health care practitioners work together towards a common goal, in an atmosphere of support and collegiality.”
Surgical Misadventures
• 38 surgeons in 146 incidents• Incident types
– Permanent disability 33%– Patient death 13%– 77% involved Sx or other interventions– 67% intraop; 27% preop; 10% unnecessary
advancement of disease
Surgery 2003; 133(6):614-21
Surgical Misadventures
• inexperience/lack of competence in a surgical task (53%)
• communication breakdowns among personnel (43%)
• fatigue or excessive workload (33%)
Surgery 2003; 133(6):614-21
JAMA 2002; 287(22):2951-7
Physicians with law suits
• Correlated with number of patient complaints• Adjusted for clinical activity level• No clear correlation with complaint types
JAMA 2002; 287(22):2951-7
Professionalism Model
Hand Hygiene
• Tertiary care center, including outpatient clinics & procedural areas
• Use of a system-wide shared accountability model
• Adherence was measured by designated hand hygiene observers
• monthly hand hygiene adherence rates were correlated with monthly rates of device-associated infection
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013 Nov;34(11):1129-36.
Hand Hygiene
• adherence greater than 85% has been achieved since January 2011 and sustained
• Social accountability worked
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013 Nov;34(11):1129-36.
NEXT STEPS
Professional Identity
• Professional Identity – “shape the novice into the effective practitioner of medicine, to give him the best available knowledge and skills, and to provide him with a professional identity so that he comes to think, act, and feel like a physician.”
Merton “The Student Physician. Harvard University Press 1957:3-79
Organizational Professionalism
• Leaders articulated clear values• Leaders emphasized aligning organizational
systems and structures to support desired behaviours
• Cultivating strong interpersonal relationships to reinforce and disseminate organizational values
BMJ Qual Saf 2011; 20(4):351-8
• Professionalism is the culture to create safety– Professional identity– Organizational professionalism
• Without engaging individual physicians and surgeons– Only change one goal post at a time; hard to get a
sea-change– “Doughy boy” syndrome– Be prepared for the 0.06% or 4%