Medical Errors - Prevention & control
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Rate of undesirable events at beginning of academic year: retrospective cohort study.

11 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether an increase in the rate of undesirable events occurs after care provided by trainees at the beginning of the academic year. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study using administrative and patient record data. SETTING: ... Read more...

Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine a) if a checklist covering a diverse group of intensive care unit protocols and objectives would improve clinician consideration of these domains and b) if improved consideration would change practice patterns. DESIGN: Pre- ... Read more...

Clinicians' assessments of electronic medication safety alerts in ambulatory care.

26 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: While electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems with drug interaction and allergy alerts promise to improve medication safety in ambulatory care, clinicians often override these safety features. We undertook a study of respondents' ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medical Errors - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Systems-based competency. 30 Oct 2009
• Giving patients their results online might be the answer. 24 Oct 2009
• Informatics aids to reduce failure rates in notification of abnormal outpatient test results. 24 Oct 2009
• EMRs do not improve reporting rates of abnormal laboratory results? 24 Oct 2009
• Rate of undesirable events at beginning of academic year: retrospective cohort study. 11 Oct 2009
• Reducing variation in adverse events during the academic year. 11 Oct 2009
• They think they are playing chess but really they are playing poker. Oct 2009
• Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices. 29 Sep 2009
• National patient safety goal on HAIs to be phased in by January: are you ready? 29 Sep 2009
• Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety. 29 Sep 2009
• Risky business. 28 Sep 2009
• Clinicians' assessments of electronic medication safety alerts in ambulatory care. 26 Sep 2009
• Improving patient safety through training in non-technical skills. 21 Sep 2009
• Academic year-end transfers of outpatients from outgoing to incoming residents: an unaddressed patient safety issue. 21 Sep 2009
• [Evaluation of trainee doctors' skills] 12 Sep 2009
• [The German interdisciplinary taskforce for clinical hemotherapy IAKH and its national critical incident reporting system specifically for blood transfusion] 9 Sep 2009
• From tragedy to advocacy. 5 Sep 2009
• Financial disincentives for nonperformance in obstetrics. 30 Aug 2009
• Labeling of contrast agent containers: a potential source of confusion and error. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevention efforts gain impetus from new 'never events' codes. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Medical Errors'

Definition: Errors or mistakes committed by health professionals which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in diagnosis (DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS), errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of surgical procedures, in the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings. Medical errors are differentiated from MALPRACTICE in that the former are regarded as honest mistakes or accidents while the latter is the result of negligence, reprehensible ignorance, or criminal intent.

Descriptor UI: D019300

Alternative terms: Medical Errors; Medical Mistakes; Mistake, Medical; Mistakes, Medical; Errors, Medical; Error, Medical; Medical Error; Medical Mistake; Surgical Errors; Errors, Surgical; Error, Surgical; Surgical Error;

Related Mesh Headings: Iatrogenic Disease; Malpractice;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control;

Tree Number: N02.421.450;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: IM; coord with specific dis or procedure (IM); do not confuse with MALPRACTICE: read MeSH definition; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS & MEDICATION ERRORS are also available; DF: MED ERR