Medical Errors Public Policy

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763131/

Public and legislative intolerance for medical errors typically illustrates a lack of understanding that some errors may not, in fact, be preventable with current …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/medical-errors-honesty-is-the-best-policy-2016100310405

How common are medical errors? Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems: globally, the cost associated with medication errors has been …

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/medical-errors.html

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

The Best Response to Medical Errors?

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/best-response-medical-errors-transparency

While the open approach may feel counterintuitive to administrators, physicians, and malpractice attorneys, studies and anecdotal accounts …

Views of Practicing Physicians and the …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa022151

Eighteen percent of physicians and 24 percent of the public reported an error that had had serious health consequences, including death (reported by 7 percent of physicians 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 problems that commonly occur …

Reporting Medical Errors - American Society of …

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ASHP believes that the following steps should be taken as part of a comprehensive national solution to the problem: (1) The establishment of a standardized, uniform nationwide …

Disclosure of medical error: policies and practice - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15994590/

Disclosure of medical error: policies and practice. J R Soc Med. 2005 Jul;98(7):307-9.doi: 10.1258/jrsm.98.7.307. Authors. Jawahar Kalra 1 , K Lorne Massey, Amith Mulla. …