Medical Error Research

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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

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 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 …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

Reporting medical errors and requiring institutions to develop plans to correct errors is a national …

Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading …

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us

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 errors: Honesty is the best policy

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/medical-errors-honesty-is-the-best-policy-2016100310405

Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data analysis and extrapolation to estimate that “communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors, poor …

Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

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

Reporting Errors Reporting errors is fundamental to error prevention. The focus on medical errors that followed the release of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report To Err …

Medical error—the third leading cause of …

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 …

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/medical-error-not-third-leading-cause-death

A study from the UK reports that 3.6% of hospital deaths were due to preventable medical error; a similar study out of Norway reports 4.2%; and a meta …

Medication errors: a focus on nursing practice | Journal of ...

https://academic.oup.com/jphsr/article/12/1/78/6065944

A previous study about the report referring to the United Kingdom (UK) restorative safeguard associations, showed that 25.0% of all cases were because of prescription errors that …