Medical Error 2008

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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

Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139

Medical error has been defined as an unintended act (either of omission or commission) or one that does not achieve its intended outcome, 3 the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended (an error of execution), the use of a wrong plan to …

Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading …

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Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to …

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 …

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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

A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Among the …

Medical Culture and Error Disclosure | Journal of Ethics

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-culture-and-error-disclosure/2008-05

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 been estimated at US$ 42 billion annually (10). Health care …

Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

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

When errors did not harm patients, 31 percent of the reports were submitted by nurses and 17 percent were submitted by physicians. 133 One survey found that nurses …

There's More to the 60 Minutes Story on Heparin Errors

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The errors involved the accidental administration of heparin withdrawn from vials (manufactured by Baxter) containing a concentration of 10,000 units/mL rather than the …

Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18195194/

Only 54.8% of respondents knew how to report errors, and only 39.5% knew what kind of errors to report. Multivariate analyses of answers to hypothetical vignettes …

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 …