Articles About Medical Errors

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 systems …

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 …

A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Systemic …

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For more than two decades as an internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Danielle Ofri has seen her share of medical errors. She warns that they are …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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

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

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One of the main branches of medical errors is medication errors which were demonstrated to be the source of morbidity and mortality in addition to the resulted …

6 Medication Error Stories That Made …

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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 …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

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Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems: globally, the cost associated with medication errors has been estimated at US$ 42 billion …

Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading …

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Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to …

Medical error—the third leading cause of …

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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 …