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Role of Simulation in Healthcare Quality Assurance

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The current estimate of preventable harm is 440,000 lives harmed per year (James J Patient Saf 9:122–8, 2013). One can’t help but wonder why despite the multiple strategies devised for preventing adverse events, healthcare has not succeeded at achieving a sustainable patient safety platform that reduces adverse events. In fact by one estimate, healthcare is the third leading cause of death in the United States (US) (Makary et al. BMJ 353:i2139, 2016). It is in this landscape that a new immersive learning tool—namely simulation—is making an impact on improving the quality and safety of healthcare delivery. Simulation is an educational technique that replaces or amplifies real experiences with guided experiences in order to create a situation or environment to allow persons to experience a representation of a real event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation, testing, or to gain understanding of systems or human actions (Healthcare Simulation Dictionary. 1st ed. 2016. p. 33. www.ssih.org/dictionary). Simulation has been used by system engineers and human factor experts in industries outside of healthcare to better understand and improve service delivery by individuals, teams, and systems (Deutsch et al. Hum Factors 58:1082–95, 2016). This immersive learning strategy has particular relevance in high-stake industries, such as healthcare, which is challenged by a constant influx of trainees, high rates of staff turnover, and the need for continuing medical education to maintain skills (IOM. Redesigning continuing education in the health professions. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press; 2010). Simulation offers healthcare a strategy to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Health System Vice President For High Reliability and Patient Safety, Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Oren T. Guttman

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Kristina L. Goff

  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA

    Scott C. Watkins

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Guttman, O.T., Goff, K.L., Watkins, S.C. (2020). Role of Simulation in Healthcare Quality Assurance. In: Mahoney, B., Minehart, R., Pian-Smith, M. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Anesthesiology . Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26849-7_7

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