medical errors" as a descriptor of adverse medical outcomes

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• Survey to Collect Primary Data about Medical Errors

  The report indicated that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in hospitals each year as the result of medical errors.

• Decision Making For Medical Practice

  There are numerous reports that indicate that medical errors are very commonplace and that a review of 30,000 medical records of patients indicated that about 3.7% of hospital suffered adverse events, with 27.6% of adverse events attributed to negligent

• Environment: Medical Errors and Patient Safety

  Step 1 The legal and regulatory environment for quality improvement especially in the context of medical errors and patient safety was addressed by the US House of Representatives that passed a bill to create a voluntary system for tracking medical errors

• Reflection on Risk and Quality Management in Healthcare

  Poorly developed procedures that fail to identify and prevent certain events may also be viewed as medical errors (ie: failure to develop a sound policy for assisting patients out of bed after surgery).

• Levels of Measurement

  (9) How many of those surgeries had an adverse reaction or an undesired outcome? (10) Of the undesired outcomes, how many were preventable?

• Research Methodology - Complications Related to Type of Surgery

  The retrospective could be used as a pilot for the prospective study. A prospective method (data gathered during hospital stay) may be better suited to show errors contributed to adverse events.

• 2 patient population groups at risk for medical errors

  In addition, the rate of potential adverse drug events - close calls/near misses - was three times the rate of potential ADEs found in a similar study of hospitalized adults.

• Medical Errors Preventions and Communication

  "A method of handing off information about pediatric patients when residents change shifts reduced preventable adverse events by 30 percent, a new study has found."

• Biography of Lucian Leape for Health Science Students

  At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies.