Defining Medical Error

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Defining medical error - PubMed

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Medical errors represent a serious public health problem and pose a threat to patient safety. As health care institutions establish "error" as a clinical and research priority, the …

Defining and classifying medical error: lessons for …

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

pharmacy intervention; organizational learning; medical error; patient safety; categorization; Patient …

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--and can have …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA

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

Medication errors can occur throughout the medication-use system. Such as, when prescribing a drug, upon entering information into a computer system, when the …

10. Patient Safety and Errors | Hospital Handbook

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Reducing medical errors: the reduction of medical errors involves defining and implementing “Patient Safety Practices,” processes meant to reduce the probability of …

Medication errors: definitions and classification - PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723196/

Defining terms in medication errors All of these methods have been adduced by Aronson and Ferner in their approach to defining terms relevant to drug safety terminology [ 14 ] …