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Tragedy of Errors- An Analysis of Human Factor in Medical Errors [PDF]
William Shakespeare wrote a play “Comedy of error”, but this is about medical error which may often result in tragic outcome. We often read about medical errors and sometimes realise in our clinical practice that an error has been committed by us or our
Manika Agarwal, Sharat Agarwal
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Diagnostic errors and reflective practice in medicine [PDF]
Background: Adverse effects of medical errors have received increasing attention. Diagnostic errors account for a substantial fraction of all medical errors, and strategies for their prevention have been explored. A crucial requirement for that is better
Mamede, S. (Silvia)+2 more
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Background: Recently, evaluation and accreditation system of hospitals has had a special emphasis on reporting malpractices and sharing errors or lessons learnt from errors, but still due to lack of promotion of systematic approach for solving problems ...
Fahimeh Khorasani, Marjan Beigi
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Medical errors in neurosurgery
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 ...
Rolston, John+5 more
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A Medical error: To disclose or not to disclose [PDF]
Human error can occur in any profession. Medical errors are most commonly occurring errors in a health care system, which are responsible to delay patient’s recovery and produce harm to patient.
Amlani, Gulzar+2 more
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Cross-checking to reduce adverse events resulting from medical errors in the emergency department: study protocol of the CHARMED cluster randomized study [PDF]
International audienceBackgroundMedical errors and preventable adverse events are a major cause of concern, especially in the emergency department (ED) where its prevalence has been reported to be roughly of 5–10 % of visits.
Alexandra Rousseau+7 more
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Retrospective Evaluation of Common Dentistry Errors in Selected Dental Clinics of the Armed Forces, Iran [PDF]
Background & Aims: The occurrence of errors in dental practice is an inevitable factor resulting in a reduction in the quality of medical services. These errors can prompt adverse complications, weaken the patient's trust in the dentist, and induce ...
Elahe Tahmasebi+4 more
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The genetic basis of classical galactosaemia in Polish patients
Classic galactosemia (OMIM #230400) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in the galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase gene (GALT; 606999) on chromosome 9p13. Its diagnosis is established
Aleksandra Jezela-Stanek+5 more
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Fucosidosis: clinical and molecular findings of Turkish patients
Background. Fucosidosis is a rare, autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by alpha L- fucosidase enzyme deficiency in all tissues. Here, we identify a patient with a novel homozygous pathogenic variant and atypical clinical findings ...
Merve Emecen Şanlı, Serap Uysal
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Improving disclosure of medical error through educational program as a first step toward patient safety [PDF]
Participantâs Response to medical errors. Description of data: Raw data of participantâs response to medical errors (3 clinical cases with different severity of error outcome), satisfaction and change after the education program.
Chan Woong Kim+3 more
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