Quality Improvement Medical Errors

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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

Preventing medical errors—and learning from the ones that do occur. As the BMJ article authors point …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the United States. ... and identifying errors permits improvement strategies to …

Improving Quality, Minimizing Error: Making It Happen

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.20.3.68

Abstract. Medical errors and the quality problems to which they lead harm millions of Americans each year. If we are to reduce errors and improve quality …

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 …

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Statute. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) establishes a voluntary reporting system designed to enhance the data available to …

Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients-drugs/working-reduce-medication-errors

This system is intended to help reduce the number of medication errors that occur in hospitals and other healthcare settings. FDA has published several guidances to …

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 …

Quality Measurement and Quality Improvement | CMS

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/MMS/Quality-Measure-and-Quality-Improvement-

CMS uses quality improvement and quality measurement to achieve the goals and priorities of the Meaningful Measures Framework. The purpose of the …

How Continuous Quality Improvement Can Address …

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This paper will cover medical errors and how Continuous Quality Improvement can address them. Health care managers have addressed the issue of medical errors for …

Quality of Care Patient Safety | Medicaid

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/quality-of-care/quality-improvement-initiatives/quality-of-care-patient-safety/index.html

In 1999, the landmark Institute of Medicine study, “To Err is Human,” estimated that as many as 98,000 Americans die every year from preventable medical errors. After more than a …

Patient safety and quality improvement: medical errors …

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Patient safety and quality improvement: medical errors and adverse events Pediatr Rev. 2010 Apr;31(4):151-8. doi: 10.1542/pir.31-4-151. Author Michael S Leonard 1 Affiliation 1 …