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Bookmark or Share- Patient safety - World Health Organization (WHO)Common adverse events that may result in avoidable patient harm are medication errors, unsafe surgical procedures, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, patient falls, pressure ulcers, patient misidentification, unsafe blood transfusion and venous thromboembolism.
- Errors in Health Care: A Leading Cause of Death and InjuryHealth care is not as safe as it should be. A substantial body of evidence points to medical errors as a leading cause of death and injury. Sizable numbers of Americans are harmed as a result of medical errors.
- Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - StatPearls - NCBI BookshelfCommon types of medical errors being studied include surgical errors, diagnostic errors, medication errors, equipment failures, patient falls, hospital-acquired infections, and communication failures.
- Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U ...The claim that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US has always rested on very shaky evidence; yet it's become common wisdom that is cited as though everyone accepts it. But if estimates of 250,000 to 400,000 deaths due to medical error are way too high, what is the real number?
- A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Systemic Flaws That ... - NPRFor more than two decades as an internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Danielle Ofri has seen her share of medical errors. She warns that they are far more common than many people...
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