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Epidemiology of medical error [PDF]
Western Journal of Medicine, 2000 Newspaper and television stories of catastrophic injuries occurring at the hands of clinicians spotlight the problem of medical error but provide little insight into its nature or magnitude.1 Clinicians, patients, and policymakers may underestimate the magnitude of risk and the extent of harm.
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Medication errors are NOT uncommon [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001 Editor,—We welcome the coverage given to the major, and potentially fatal, problem of medication errors within managed health care.1 We disagree, however, with the key message that medication errors are uncommon . They are endemic, extremely common, overlooked and often ignored.
Neil A Caldwell, Don K Hughes
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Medical errors in neurosurgery
Surgical Neurology International, 2014 Medical errors cause nearly 100,000 deaths per year and cost billions of dollars annually. In order to rationally develop and institute programs to mitigate errors, the relative frequency and costs of different errors must be documented. This analysis will permit the judicious allocation of scarce healthcare resources to address the most costly errors ...
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Nurse Prescribing, 2018 In its report of the Short Life Working Group on reducing medication-related harm, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (2018) provided a UK response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) (2017) Global Patient Safety Challenge, ‘Medication without Harm’. WHO (2017) recognised that there is significant harm caused to patients globally as a
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Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016 Epinephrine plays an integral role in the treatment of several life treating diseases. It can be administered at different doses and through different routes of administration. Nebulized L-epinephrine has been described as a safe treatment method.
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, 2019 A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while medication is in the control of health care professional. (NCC, 2019).
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Medication errors: They continue
Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2019 Rashmi Salhotra, Asha Tyagi
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Preventing medication errors [PDF]
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2000 Keyes C, Federico F
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