Joint Commission Disclosing Medical Errors

Preventing Medicine Errors | The Joint Commission

https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/for-consumers/speak-up-campaigns/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 get the wrong medicine, or you can be given the wrong amount of medicine. This brochure has questions and answers to help …

Disclosure of Errors | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/disclosure-errors

Unanticipated Harm to Patients: Deciding When to …

https://www.jointcommissionjournal.com/article/S1549-3741(03)29065-1/fulltext

Institutional policies and procedures should provide a clear approach to the identification, reporting, and discussion of unanticipated adverse outcomes, whether or not they are …

Patient Safety | The Joint Commission

https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/patient-safety/

The journey to zero harm moves at a similar pace. Slowly and steadily we’re working with you to improve patient safety, marching toward the day when health care is viewed as a …

Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2652/

Disclosure can avert patients seeking another physician and can improve patient satisfaction, trust, and positive emotional response to an error, as well as decrease …

Preferences and Perceptions of Medical Error Disclosure Among ...

https://www.jointcommissionjournal.com/article/S1553-7250(22)00127-1/fulltext

Antunez et al. conducted telephone interviews using two hypothetical medical error scenarios: first when a primary care provider failed to order a biopsy after a …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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

Medical errors cost approximately $20 billion a year. Medical errors in hospitals and clinics result in approximately 100,000 people dying each year. Medical …

Disclosing Error to a Patient: Physician-to-Patient …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/disclosing-error-patient-physician-patient-communication/2005-08

Steps in Disclosing and Reporting an Error 1. Make sure the patient is stable and ensure optimal care. 2. If you are under supervision, notify the attending physician immediately. 3. If the harm is severe (a patient death …

Disclosure: Who, What and Whether To - The Hospitalist

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/122930/disclosure-who-what-and-whether

Error has been defined by JCAHO as “…an unintended act, either of omission or commission, or an act that does not achieve its intended outcome” (4). It seems …

JCAHO Revises Standards to Help Reduce Medical Errors

https://www.apsf.org/article/jcaho-revises-standards-to-help-reduce-medical-errors/

JCAHO Revises Standards to Help Reduce Medical Errors Robert C. Morell, MD Share Effective July 1, 2001, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) published new …