Define Medical Errors

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430763/

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 …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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

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, …

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 …

Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA - U.S. Food …

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients-drugs/working-reduce-medication-errors

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 control …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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

Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data analysis and extrapolation to estimate that “communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors, poor …

Defining and classifying medical error: …

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/1/13

A member of the pharmacy management team underscored that pharmacists routinely double checked the work of those who wrote and filled orders and caught their mistakes, a …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Boston University

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/HPM/AmericanHealthCare_Quality/AmericanHealthCare_Quality4.html

Error or delay in diagnosis Failure to employ indicated tests Use of outmoded tests or therapy Failure to act on results of monitoring or testing Treatment Error in the …

Medication Errors - World Health Organization

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/252274/9789241511643-eng.pdf;sequence=1

This definition is broad and suggests that errors are preventable at different levels. Medication error has also been defined as a reduction in the probability of treatment …

Defining medical error - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15757035/

Les erreurs médicales constituent un grave problème de santé publique et menacent la sécurité des patients. Alors même que les établissements de santé accordent la priorité …