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〒162-8666 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
The Department of Medical Safety is a new department established in 2008. Tokyo Women's Medical University experienced major medical accidents in 2001 and 2014, both of which were severely punished by the cancellation of its status as a hospital with special functions. Based on this reflection, the Department of Medical Safety was established as a new department in order to transform the hospital into the one that focuses on medical safety more than any other university hospital, and a professor was appointed in July 2016. It is no exaggeration to say that "medical safety studies" as a field of medical research began with the "Yokohama City University patient mix-up incident" in 1999. However, it is a field with great potential for future development, and it is expected that not only physicians, but also pharmacists, nurses, and other medical professionals, as well as non-medical professionals specializing in ergonomics and information processing, will be active in the field. We are looking for talented individuals who are interested in research on medical safety, so please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested.
For medical students, we provide lectures on "medical safety," "quality of medical care," and "team medicine". In particular, the development of medical care through collaboration among multiple professions, an important concept in "team medicine," will be explained in an easy-to-understand manner, taking into consideration the characteristics of medical care as a service. In addition, as part of the clinical training for fourth-year students, we will also provide small group training that incorporates hazard prediction training (KYT) to practice medical safety in the medical field. Furthermore, we are also engaged in lectures and practical training on "medical safety" for undergraduate nursing students and education for students in the certified nursing program.
Medical safety began with the development of specific mechanisms and methods to prevent mistakes and has been followed by efforts such as the introduction of incident reporting systems to learn from mistakes. A system to do this on a national scale has also been created, and significant progress has been made over the past nearly 20 years. However, the limitations of learning from failures have come to be pointed out, and the promotion of team medicine has also come to be emphasized from the perspective of medical safety. In addition, recently, the high rate of surgical fatalities caused by surgeons with inadequate skills has become an issue, forcing medical safety to confront a different dimension. Thus, medical safety studies must evolve from ensuring patient safety in medical care to assuring the quality of medical care, and in particular, there is an urgent need to develop appropriate indicators that reflect the quality of medical care provided to patients. Currently, the analysis of data stored in electronic medical records, such as medical information, is also becoming a subject of research, and the scope of investigation and research has expanded to cover a wide range of areas.
Yuko Shimizu
Goki Matsumura
Norihiro Nakajima
Unfortunately, Japan lags Western countries in research on the quality and efficiency of medical services, not limited to medical safety, but Japan's medical care delivery system, based on universal health insurance is highly regarded internationally. We believe that by utilizing the medical accident investigation system and near-miss information collection projects conducted at the national level, as well as publicly available DPC data, we will be able to obtain research results that can be applied overseas as well. This is a developing research field, but we will establish a system to lead research in Japan and provide guidance and support for the preparation of research papers.
Japan Council for Quality Health Care HP
Japan Medical Safety Research Organization HP
Research Achievements Database
〒162-8666
8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
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