Patient Safety & Adverse Events

The purpose of Health care is improve and manage an individuals personal health. Throughout the years numerous studies, experiments and treatments have taken place in order to fulfill the role that health care plays in life. But there are incidences when things don't go right, known as an adverse event, whether it is during treatment. No matter the case, it is important that these incidences are reported and reviewed. People are at the center of these events, and getting their perspective will help determine the severity of an adverse event.
It is important because a patient or a participant may not suffer from physical side effects of experimental drugs or treatments, so providers will need to talk to patients to get an idea of how they are feeling psychologically. Their perspective may provide important feedback that could improve the treatment process. The importance of a patient's perspective is because the ultimate consequence, death, outweighs any potential gain that can be made from the completion of treatment. Also, gaining a patient's perspective helps build better communication between patient and provider. Once again, it reinforces any physical or mental issues the patient might be experiencing that a physician would be unable to detect. Measuring the severity of an adverse event can only be done with effective communication between the two parties.