Reduce Medical Errors Enhance Patient Safety

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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

Identify patient safety dangers and risks Identify patients correctly by confirming the identity in at least two ways Improve communication such as getting test …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Patient Safety - World Health Organization

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It aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to patients during provision of health care. A cornerstone of the discipline is continuous improvement based on learning from errors and …

System Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Error …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK214937/

The attention that handovers have received as a target area to improve patient safety is exemplified by the Joint Commission’s decision to issue …

Approach to Improving Patient Safety: Communication

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Facilitating patient access to their electronic health record (EHR) can give them the ability to review and report errors in the medical notes.2,3 Expanded patient …

Improving Patient Safety—Why Data Matters - Health …

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Four Measures to Improve Patient Safety Patient safety improvement centers on three actions: measure, intervene, and prevent. The health system must first …

Improving Quality, Minimizing Error: Making It Happen

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

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 substantially, we …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Boston University

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Even using the lower estimate, preventable medical errors in hospitals exceed attributable deaths to such feared threats as motor-vehicle wrecks, breast cancer, and AIDS. Medical …

Reducing medication errors and increasing patient …

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Today, reducing medication errors and improving patient safety have become common topics of discussion for the president of the United States, federal and state …