Medical Errors And Patient Safety In Healthcare

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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

Only by health professionals working together will the cost and injury associated with medical errors be mitigated. The Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals. The Joint Commission has introduced several patient safety goals to assist institutions …

Patient Safety | The Joint Commission

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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming and frequently cited statistics from the Institute of Medicine: medical errors …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

Patient Safety is a health care discipline that emerged with the evolving complexity in health care systems and the resulting rise of patient harm in health …

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html

AHRQ has developed a wealth of materials focused on a wide range of patient safety risks in specific healthcare settings: acute, long-term, ambulatory, and more. Quality …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Medical errors can occur anywhere in the healthcare system: hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes. Errors can …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/adverse-events-near-misses-and-errors

The related Systems Approach Patient Safety Primer discusses the relationship between errors and adverse events, summarized in the Swiss Cheese …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Boston University

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Medical Errors and Patient Safety. "Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be - and can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy. “It’s a definite that you’re all going to screw up, but it’s not a definite that any of you will learn from that,” declared one …

Medical error disclosure and patient safety: legal aspects

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Reducing the number of preventable adverse events has become a public health issue. The paper discusses in which ways the law can contribute to that goal, …