How To Reduce Medical Errors In Documentation

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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Nursing documentation: How to avoid the most …

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Here are some of the top 9 types of medical documentation errors: Sloppy or illegible handwriting …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Prevent mistakes in surgery by making sure the correct surgery is done on the correct body part; pause before surgery to double-check. Use device alarms and make …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA

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To avoid errors and encourage safe use of drugs, the guidance recommendations include: Tablets and other oral dosage forms should have distinct and …

Reducing medical errors through better documentation

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Computer-based medical records, integration with the pharmacy, decision support software, Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems, and bar coding all offer …

4 Actions to Reduce Medical Errors in U.S. Hospitals

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Here are four measures that would fix the deficiencies in safety at U.S. hospitals. 1. Make patient and staff safety a top priority. Safety is dependent on the …

White Paper: How to Reduce Documentation Errors | NSF

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In a world where we are consumed by data transmitted electronically to every device imaginable, how is it that we continue to be plagued by documentation errors? In …

Tips to Prevent Errors in Medical Record …

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Design a form, either in paper or electronic version that patients can use to submit a suggested change. Establish procedures for documenting a late entry, if any …

MEDICAL ERRORS IN NURSING: PREVENTING …

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Be clear, concise, and specific in your documentation. Do correct errors. Draw a straight line through incorrect entries, and write “error” above them. Initial and …