Define Reportable Medical Error

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

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This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (e.g., verbal, written, or other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that …

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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Medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system--in hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes …

Defining and classifying medical error: lessons for patient …

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Examples are presented which show that: (1) the definition of an event could lead to under-reporting; (2) the classification of a …

Incident Reporting in Healthcare: A Complete Guide (2021)

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An incident is an unfavorable event in health organizations. But, the nature of the incident can vary based on numerous circumstantial factors. Broadly, there are three types of incident reports: 1. Clinical …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy - Harvard Health

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Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data analysis and extrapolation to estimate that “communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors, poor judgment, and inadequate skill” as …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement uses a similar definition: unintended physical injury resulting from or contributed to by medical care that requires …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Active errors are those taking place between a person and an aspect of a larger system at the point of contact. Active errors are made by people on the front …

Reporting Patient Safety Events | PSNet

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Initial reports often come from the frontline personnel directly involved in an event or the actions leading up to it (e.g., the nurse, pharmacist, or physician caring for a patient when a medication error …

Reportable Adverse Events - California

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1279.1. (b) For purposes of this section, "adverse event" includes any of the following: (1) Surgical events, including the following: (A) Surgery performed on a wrong body part that …