Improvement in communication during patient handoff between areas from a children's hospital.

Introduction: Patient handoff is an interactive process including data communication and responsible transfer in order to safely maintain the continuity of care. Failure in this process may result in inadequate care and favor the occurrence of errors.

Objective: To implement a standardized instrument for patient handoff from the intensive care unit (ICU) to the intermediate-medium care unit (IMCU), and compare communication between health care providers before and after the intervention.

[Patient safety and the international goals: Consensus document].

Patient safety is one of the dimensions of care. Medical advances have made assistance processes more and more complex, and there is usually a combination of circumstances that converge for errors to occur. Adverse events constitute a serious public health problem, causing damages of varying degrees to the patient and his family, which also leads to an increase in the cost of the care process and hospital stay.

[The current status of patient safety in Argentina: Cross sectional study].

Background: Patient safety is a priority for healthcare organizations. For the PRONAP´s 2013 final exam, the Quality & Patient Safety Subcommittee and the PRONAP managers designed a survey to be answered by pediatrician students nationwide. It was destined to evaluate attitudes, practices and safety conditions in which they worked.

Patient experience assessment in pediatric hospitals in Argentina.

Objective: To create a hospital pediatric inpatient experience survey based on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Hospital Survey (CAHPS® Hospital Survey).

Design: Survey development based on: (i) Translation and back translation, (ii) Review by experts, (iii) Cultural adaptation: qualitative evaluation of dimensions with reformulation and adaptation of items, (iv) Local cognitive evaluation and (v) Final measurement of its psychometric properties. Inspection, content validity and reliability assessment through internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient) and inter-item correlation.

[Patient safety: Glossary].

Patient safety and quality of care has become a challenge for health systems. Health care is an increasingly complex and risky activity, as it represents a combination of human, technological and organizational processes. It is necessary, therefore, to take effective actions to reduce the adverse events and mitigate its impact.

[Inadvertent adolescent pregnancy: a sentinel analysis].

A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof.The sentinel event identified was undiagnosed adolescent pregnancy before the indication of potentially harmful treatments or diagnostic methods. The team performed a root -cause analysis where the following causes were identified: a) Paediatrician bias: not thinking about adolescent sexual behaviour, incomplete questionnaires, insufficient training in adolescent interviews.

[Achievements and challenges in implementing the surgical checklist in a pediatric hospital].

Patient safety in the operating room is a topic of universal concern. Several studies support the existence of a high percentage of complications and a high mortality rate in surgical procedures (0.5 to 5%).

[Health care team and parents' opinion about pediatric patients identification].

Introduction: Patient misidentification continues to be a quality and safety significant issue. The Joint Commission International listed patient identification as the first of ten life-saving patient-safety solutions. Identification wrist bands are the goal in the identification strategy.

[Chagas' disease as a cause of cerebral mass in a patient with lymphoblastic leukemia in remission].

We report the case of a 15-year-old female patient, native of the province of Chaco, diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia 2 years ago. She was currently in maintenance therapy, with good response to treatment. Twenty days before she began with headache and fever.