Patient Medical Errors

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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

It is challenging to uncover a consistent cause of errors and, even if found, to provide a consistent viable solution that minimizes the chances of a recurrent event. By recognizing untoward events occur, learning from them, and working toward preventing …

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--and can …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Medical errors are also associated with extremes of age, new procedures, urgency, and the …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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

Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the United …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

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The most detrimental errors are related to diagnosis, prescription and the use of medicines (6). In OECD countries, 15% of total hospital activity and …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy. “It’s a definite that you’re all going to screw up, but it’s not a definite that any of you will learn from that,” declared one …

Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading …

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According to the CDC, in 2013, 611,105 people died of heart disease, 584,881 died of cancer and 149,205 died of chronic respiratory disease — the top three causes of …

Patient Identification Errors: A Systems Challenge | PSNet

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The findings of one meta-analysis indicated that scanning wristband barcodes resulted in a 57.5% reduction in medical errors. 10. The recommendations …

Doctors at Florida hospital say patient care has suffered since …

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/roaches-operating-room-hca-hospital-florida-rcna69563

Doctors allege unsanitary surgical instruments, an overflowing ER, roaches in the OR and anesthesiology errors that resulted in patients waking up during surgery. IE …