Reporting and learning from medical errors improves the safety of patients. It has been over ten years since the reports To Err Is Human and An Organisation with a Memory highlighted the scale of preventable me
Also, patient satisfaction reflects the right image of the healthcare facility or organization. 2. For Proper Reimbursement Hospitals are ranked according to patient outcomes. With these statistics, patients choose the best healthcare providers for their specific diagnoses or conditions. Physicians also ...
The CDC doesn’t require that medical errors be reported in the data collected for death certificates. They publish mortality statistics that only count the "underlying cause of death," defined as the condition that led a person to seek treatment. As a result, even when a medical error is l...
BMC Health Services Research (2019) 19:966 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4796-4 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Inequity in healthcare needs, health service use and financial burden of medical expenditures in China: results from a consecutive household monitoring study in Jiangsu Province Weixi...
contributes to the current under-performance of ML models, preventing their pervasive adoption and application. Even when proven more accurate than clinicians on average, ML models are unlikely to be approved for clinical practice without high accuracy as errors in healthcare result in enormous costs...
Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons. Ann Surg. 2010;251(6):995-1000. doi:10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bfdab3PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref See More About Health Policy Sleep Medicine Professional Well-being Health Care Safety open access Trending Crowdsourced Feedback to Improve ...
1-4 In addition, medical errors are a major source of morbidity5 and account for billions of dollars in financial losses to health care systems every year.6-9 Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among physicians,10,11 and several studies have investigated the associations between physician ...
Healthcare Serial Killing Miller (2014a) synthesizes earlier work to categorize SK as custodial, delusional, utilitarian, or sadistic in their motivation (Table1). These are not exclusive categories and can overlap, with HSK typically falling under, but not limited to the “custodial” label. Ot...
Although public medical insurance covers over 95% of the population in China, disparities in health service use and out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure across income groups are still widely observed. This study aims to investigate the socio-economic disparities in perceived healthcare needs, info...
"Second victims are health care providers who are involved in an unanticipated ad- verse patient event, in a medical error and/or a patient related injury and become victimized in the sense that the provider is traumatized by the event. Frequently these individuals feel personally responsible for...