Medical Error | search
Click here to view Medical Error news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Drug Administration Errors - NursingAnswers.netReflection Drug administration errors are common, and can result from either active failures or latent conditions.
- Swiss Cheese Model to Assess Medical Errors and Patient SafetyMedical malpractice tends to cover a wide range of conditions and severity. Example of some of these claims includes administering medication without a diagnosis, improper prescription of medication, mishandling of patients and lack of ethics among healthcare professionals (Spath, 2011).
- The History Of Medication Errors - NursingAnswers.netExtensively referenced was the number of deaths (48,000 from the Colorado/Utah study to 98,000 from the New York research) associated with medical errors. The New York researchers identified the types of medical errors that resulted in adverse events (AE) (Leape et. al., 1991).
- Medical Errors: Causes, Impacts and Prevention - NursingAnswers.netWhen thinking about topics and drawing up ethical implications the first topic that comes to mind is medical errors. Medical errors are false or incomplete diagnosis and/or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment. Medical errors have been one of the top causes for deaths in the country for years.
- Effective Leadership And Patient Safety Culture - NursingAnswers.netIn 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year as a consequence of medical error.
More
