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Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Medical errors cost approximately $20 billion a year. Medical errors in hospitals and clinics result in approximately 100,000 people dying each year. Medical errors typically include surgical, diagnostic, medication, devices and equipment, and …

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Among the …

A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Systemic …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/30/885186438/a-doctor-confronts-medical-errors-and-flaws-in-the-system-that-create-mistakes

On Ofri's experience of making a "near-miss" medical error when she was a new doctor I had a patient admitted for so-called "altered mental status." There was an …

Medication errors: a focus on nursing practice | Journal of ...

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Medications errors (MEs), one of the most types of medical errors, could be venomous in clinical settings. Patients will be harmed physically and psychologically, in …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy - Harvard Health

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How common are medical errors? Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data analysis and extrapolation to estimate that “communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors, poor …

Medication Errors: What Is Their Impact? - Mayo Clinic …

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In hospitalized patients, implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) linked with clinical decision support has been the single most effective error-prevention …

6 Medication Error Stories That Made Headlines - Cureatr

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As the data shows, this happens much more than it should. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration states error that could have been avoided. Here are six stories about medication errors that received …

Medical errors: Healthcare professionals’ perspective at …

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The common medical errors result from incomplete instructions, incorrect dosage, and incorrect route of administration, diagnosis errors, and labelling errors. The perceived causes of these …

Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US

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Medical error has been defined as an unintended act (either of omission or commission) or one that does not achieve its intended outcome, 3 the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended …