Addressing Medical Errors

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Due to unclear definitions, “medical errors” are difficult to scientifically measure. A lack of standardized nomenclature and overlapping definitions of medical errors has hindered data analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. There are two major …

The Best Response to Medical Errors?

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This nondefensive approach to addressing medical errors is gaining ground. “We are seeing …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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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 …

Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals

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Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals: Ten Tools Tool #1: An Assessment of Medication Use Processes Page 1 of 3 Tool #1 An Assessment of Medication Use Processes …

Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA

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A medication error is defined as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the …

Addressing medical errors: the key to a safer health care …

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A recent report on patient safety by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Health Care in America noted that there are at least 44,000 patient deaths from …

Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals: A Practical …

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Medication errors represent the largest single cause of errors in the hospital setting, accounting for more than 7,000 deaths annually — more than the number of …

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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The most common medical errors in the United States by occurrence are: adverse drug events, catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), central line …