Patient Safety

3. The process of working together to the same end.
4. Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.
6. Make it easier for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources.
7. The collective expectations by the public and other clinicians that health care providers will demonstrate knowledge, skill, and competence, and will act in the best interest of both patients and colleagues with beneficence, fairness, and integrity.
8. A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation.
10. Successful in producing a desired or intended result.
11. The treatment of others with deference in daily interactions, weighing their values, views, opinions and preferences.

1. The action of stopping something from happening or arising.
2. A _____ call is an event or situation that could have resulted in an accident, injury or illness, but did not, either by chance or through timely intervention.
4. Any injury caused by medical care is referred to as an _______ event. An undesirable clinical outcome that has resulted from some aspect of diagnosis or therapy, not an underlying disease process.
5. The goal of the______ ___ is to find ways to prevent repeat of adverse events or close calls.
6. An impairment of structure or function of the body and/or any deleterious effect arising therefrom, including disease, injury, suffering, disability, and death.
9. To bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.