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Healing the Effects of Medical Errors: A Vision of Justice as Wholeness
<p>Medical errors cannot be avoided completely even when employing the greatest care and applying the most sophisticated medical technologies. They occur when organizational, human, technical, or environmental factors lead to unintentional failures which result in recognizable physical, mental, …
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The Ethical Obligation for Disclosure of Medical Error in the Intensive Care Unit
… involved in the delivery of healthcare and medical treatment guarantee that medical errors will occur despite the best of training, skills and vigilance, precautions, or preventive procedures. While medical errors occur across the spectrum of care and treatment, the propensity for their …
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Collaborating With the Unit Clerk to Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration on a Medical Surgical Unit
<p>Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical errors also incur significant cost ramifications due to increased hospital length of stay and fines. Medication errors, a type of medical error, are one of the most common types of inpatient errors. Nurses are most …
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Adverse event registry analysis of an EMS system in a low resource setting: a descriptive study
Introduction Out of hospital emergency medical service patients present unique challenges and ample opportunities for medical error to occur. Identifying medical error is important for mitigating future risk and improving patient safety. Hypothesis/problem Our study describes the adverse event …
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ADVANCING COMMUNICATION OF MEDICAL ERROR: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TRANSGRESSION AND TRANSPARENCY
… about-face in publicly endorsed attitudes toward medical errors - from concealment, cover-up, and turning a blind eye to transparency, acknowledgment, and prevention. Medical error is a pervasive problem, with the Institute of Medicine estimating that between 44,000-98,000 people die annually due …
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Medical error: Overcoming barriers to truthful disclosure
The Institute of Medicine’s report on medical errors revealed a degree of fallibility in health care that was previously unrecognized. One explanation for the\r\ngeneral ignorance about the threats to patient safety and actual harms to patients is that\r\nmany health-care providers are reluctant to …
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Nurses' Perceptions of the Effects of Disruptive Physician Behavior on Patient Safety
… been identified as a factor that contributes to medical errors and disruptive behavior is a potential cause of communication breakdown. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated in 1997 that in the United States there were between 44,000 and 98,000 patient deaths due to medical errors (Kohn, …
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Strategies for the Improvement of Healthcare through Simulation
… simulation</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Medical errors continue to plague the healthcare industry. The annual rates of morbidity are approximately 2.69 million (AHRQ, 2019), while mortality rates exceed 400,000 per annum (Makary & Daniel, 2016). There may be no panacea to combat these …
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Executable clinical models for acute care
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer, causing at least 250,000 deaths every year. These errors are often caused by slips and lapses, which include, but are not limited to delayed diagnosis, delayed or ineffective therapeutic interventions, …
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A comprehensive approach to preventing errors in a hospital setting: Organizational behavior management and patient safety
… number of U.S. deaths each year resulting from medical errors range from 44,000 (Institute of Medicine, 1999) to 195,000 (HealthGrades, 2004). Additionally, instances of medical harm are estimated to occur at a rate of approximately 15 million per year in the U.S., or about 40,000 per day …
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Increasing Patient Safety During Medication Administration
… administration error is one of the crucial medical errors that compromises patient safety in hospitals each day. Direct observations were conducted to assess medication administration (MA) accuracy and practices in order to determine the root cause(s) of errors at a community-based, …
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Modern lightweight approach for design and implementation of workflow-based clinical guidance system
Preventable medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US, taking just over 22,000 lives a year. To minimize preventable medical errors, healthcare practitioners have adopted the use of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) into their workflow in the past decades. However, there …
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An Exploration of Satisfaction, Psychological Stress, and Readiness for Interprofessional Learning in Medical, Nursing, Allied Health, and Social Work Students in an Interprofessional Health Care Course
<p>Medical errors are a prominent problem in health care systems in many countries, including the U.S. One source of medical errors is communication and collaboration between health care team members. Many medical, nursing, and allied health care programs have implemented interprofessional health …
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Measuring and modeling the effects of fatigue on performance: Specific application to the nursing profession
High rates of medical errors are well documented within the healthcare industry. Nurses, in particular, play a critical role in the quality and safety of healthcare services. Fatigue is a factor that has been linked to stress, safety, and performance decrements in numerous work environments. Within …
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Establishing A Peer Supported Second Victim Program For Healthcare Providers: Team Heal
<p>Medical errors and adverse events in healthcare resulting in serious patient harm have a substantial impact on patients, families, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations (Coughlan, Powell and Higgins 2017, Dukhanin et al., 2018). When adverse events occur, the patient and often …
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Using High-fidelity Medical Simulation to Assess Critical Thinking in Medical Students
… development of critical thinking skills during medical school is important to meet this societal need and for the care of ill patients. Research shows this skill is key in decreasing medical errors, which in turn decreases cost. (Norman and Eva, 2010) Missing from the literature is a method to …
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Perceptions of Interprofessional Communication: Causes and Effects on Patient Care, Occupational Stress, and Job Satisfaction.
… quality of patient care and increased numbers of medical errors. Increased occupational stress due to lack of effective interprofessional communication can lead to poor job satisfaction and burnout. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to interprofessional communication as perceived …
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Topics in health economics
… the result of physician incentives rather than medical necessity. Increasingly, however, the medical literature is raising questions about possible correlations between increased CS use and negative health outcomes for children in later life. For example, CS changes the intestinal bacteria of …
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COPD C.A.R.E. Connect: A Systems Trajectory To Reducing COPD Readmissions In A Large National Healthcare Institution
… Readmission exposes the patient to risks of medical errors and hospital-acquired infection. An interprofessional care program for COPD patients called “COPD C.A.R.E. (Control Avoidable REadmissions) Connect” was established within the medical surgical unit at this large national healthcare …
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Inpatient Glycemic Management: Glucose Control Relationship with Hospital Variables, Discharge Planning and Education
… lack of discharge coordination associated with medical errors and readmission. This entire body of work contains three distinct sections: Two manuscripts and a grant proposal. The two manuscripts in this study were based on more current retrospective data at the time of the study. The first …
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