Medical Error Definition Ahrq

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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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 serious consequences. Errors can involve medicines, surgery, …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

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Medical Error: An unintended but preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Medical Record: Documentation of a patient's …

Diagnostic Safety and Quality - Agency for Healthcare …

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AHRQ has funded several recent studies on diagnostic error: Outpatient diagnostic errors affect 1 in 20 U.S. adults. This study used data from three previous …

Medication Administration Errors | PSNet

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Medication administration errors are typically thought of as a failure in one of the five “rights” of medication administration (right patient, medication, time, dose, and route). These five …

Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events | PSNet

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A medication error is an error (of commission or omission) at any step along the pathway that begins when a clinician prescribes a medication and ends …

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

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Building Capacity for Change. AHRQ has developed tools that can help organizations build the capacity for change to make health care safer. By understanding patient …

Patient Safety 101 | PSNet

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Error: a broader term referring to any act of commission (doing something wrong) or omission (failing to do the right thing) that exposes patients to a potentially …

Diagnostic Errors | PSNet

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In the Harvard Medical Practice Study, diagnostic error accounted for 17% of preventable errors in hospitalized patients, and a systematic review of autopsy …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety | Agency for …

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Medical errors and patient safety fact sheets Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety: Responding to Ebola and Other Threats This issue brief underscores the helpful …