Avoid Medical Mistakes

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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1. Speak up if you have questions or concerns. You have a right to questio…2. Make sure that someone, such as your primary care doctor, coordinates you…3. Make sure … See more

Medical Errors: Tips for Patients | U.S. News

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Here are a few facts about the impact of medical errors: An estimated 10% of patients in high-income countries are harmed while receiving hospital care, …

Medical Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - WebMD

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How to avoid medication errors - Harvard Health

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-to-avoid-medication-errors

Medication errors at home cause many thousands of emergency room visits and hospitalizations every year. The most frequent errors are taking doses at the wrong …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the United States. It is challenging to uncover a consistent cause of errors and, …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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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 …

Preventing Medicine Errors | The Joint Commission

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Speak Up Preventing Medicine Errors. Help Avoid Mistakes With Your Medicine. Medicine mistakes happen every day — at the doctor’s office or hospital, even at home. You can …

Health Care Professionals Make Mistakes, …

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Health Care Has a Trust Issue. An estimated 98,000 people die every year as a result of medical errors in hospitals. Despite progress being made to make it easier …

Patient Beware: How to Avoid Medical …

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Take a friend or family member with you (especially if you are hospitalized). Bring a list of medications and supplements so drug interactions can be detected. …