Medical errors are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in healthcare. Pediatric patients receiving care in the acute or emergency setting may be especially susceptible to medical error and subsequent harm. Here we review the most common types of medical errors in pediatric emergency medicine ...
7 Types of Common Medication Errors in Illinois If you think you have a case,get in touch with a medication error attorney. These lawyers specialize in cases just like yours, so they have contacts among medical professionals who can bypass that medical expert testimony and help you win your c...
2: SURGERY ERRORS Surgery error is the second most common medical malpractice claim, coming in at 24% last year. Surgery error includes operating on the wrong person, the wrong limb or organ, the wrong side of the body, leaving tools inside the patient, nicking internal organs, and more. ...
The pharmacy can prevent these types of errors by adding warning notes in the pharmacy software to double check for partial tablets and to educate pharmacy technicians and pharmacists to verify directions on each label prior to filling and dispensing. Delays in delivery can also le...
Medical errors: a common problem : It is time to get serious about them Editorial. Discusses the commonalty of medical errors, and the coverage they are receiving by the press. Impact of the media attention on fueling the belie... KGMM Alberti - 《Bmj British Medical Journal》 被引量: ...
"ME cases occurred most frequently in medical-surgical units (35.0%), followed by [intensive care unit (ICU)] (14.7%) and Intermediate Care (13.3%). Further, 65% of errors reached the patients without harm and 14% of errors were identified before reaching the patients. Approximately 10% of...
One of the most dangerous medical malpractice types are surgical or anesthesia errors. How can this type of mistake happen? A few examples would include: The wrong patient is operated on or given anesthesia. The correct procedure is performed, but there was an error in the way it was done ...
There are different kinds of errors that a researcher may fall into during various phases of a study. Of these errors systematic ones (or biases) can be counted. In this paper we aim to shortly introduce various sorts of biases that might happen in medical research. These biases are of ...
Patients ≥18 years with ≥5 prescribed medications in the medication list (ML) in the electronic medical record at 5 Swedish municipalities were recruited at scheduled check-up or invited by postal letter to participate and the actual prescribed treatment reported by patients´ was compared with ...
Nurses who had attended medication training within the last 2 years were less likely to make errors. "The study results underline the need for regularly recurring medication training for nurses to ensure a high level of patient safety—especially in the home care sector, asnursesare the only pro...