Innovation in Hospital Management: Strategies and Efforts for Patient and Healthcare Workers Safety and Prevention of Claims: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Billions of medical and surgical procedures are performed every day in hospitals around the world. In recent years, and especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for hospital organization capable of welcoming and managing the needs of the population is increasingly necessary. The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged member countries to implement reforms and promote new evidence-based practices.

In many ways, improvements and updates in clinical practice and organization are needed for the benefit of patients, their safety and health care workers. Hospital organization must consider the new general conditions in which it operates and in addition to the needs of COVID-19 patients, it must keep ordinary activities safe and this represents a challenge.

Western countries are experiencing what is called the "silver tsunami", a significant increase in the average age of the population with the consequent need to better calibrate the organization of hospitals and available resources. There is an evident lack of technologies and drugs such as plasma derivatives and it is therefore increasingly important to develop a strategy for the management of these new emerging aspects.

In Europe, investment programs are being developed that aim to increase the resilience of national systems in the health sector. These programs provide investment in technologies that can lead to technological and scientific innovation in order to maintain clinical activities and enable the development of scientific research innovation.

Clinical risk management is an increasingly necessary and important activity in this particular context that must be integrated in order to increase the safety of patients and healthcare professionals. A particular area of interest is nosocomial infections, which represent adverse events that must be prevented and often managed in the medical-legal field in terms of health responsibility and in the field of the autopsy.

Many publications on these topics can be found across the globe. This Special Issue aims to collect original research, case studies, literature evidence, case reports, studies that show examples of healthcare organization, peculiar cases in the organizational, medical staff, patient safety and safety at work and scientific innovation and research.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to submit research covering, but not limited to, the following potential topics: 

• Health organization;
• Technology innovation;
• National rules and laws in medical liability and clinical risk management;
• Patient safety;
• Ethics in medicine;
• Adverse events;
• Violence against health workers;
• Suicide risk prevention;
• Infectious diseases;
• Adverse drug reactions;
• Patient blood management;
• Environmental risks for healthcare personnel;
• Healthcare-associated infections;
• Death;
• Autopsy;
• Scientific research in medicine;
• Postmortem investigation;
• Vaccines.

Dr. Matteo Bolcato
Dr. Stefano D'Errico
Guest Editors

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• clinical risk management
• autopsy
• medical liability
• nosocomial infections
• safety
• technology
• infectious diseases
• diagnosis

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