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PURPOSE To determine whether higher rates of medical errors were associated with positive screenings for depression or burnout among resident physicians. METHOD The authors conducted a prospective cohort study from 2011-2013 in seven pediatric academic
Katherine A. Brunsberg+9 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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Medical errors: Healthcare professionals’ perspective at a tertiary hospital in Kuwait
Medical errors are of economic importance and can contribute to serious adverse events for patients. Medical errors refer to preventable events resulting from healthcare interactions, whether these events harm the patient or not.
Z. Ahmed+3 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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MCSCSet: A Specialist-annotated Dataset for Medical-domain Chinese Spelling Correction [PDF]
Chinese Spelling Correction (CSC) is gaining increasing attention due to its promise of automatically detecting and correcting spelling errors in Chinese texts. Despite its extensive use in many applications, like search engines and optical character recognition systems, little has been explored in medical scenarios in which complex and uncommon ...
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Evaluation of visual functions in Iranian hypothyroid adults
Introduction The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of hypothyroidism on visual functions such as visual acuity, refractive errors, colour vision, and contrast sensitivity, among hypothyroid adults.
Somayyeh Boomi Quchan Atigh+5 more
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Background: Patient safety is among the main goals in a health system. Medical errors are considered a significant threat to patient safety. An effective strategy to reduce this risk is reporting these errors even when the patient is not affected.
Farnoush Farzi+8 more
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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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Role of empathy in the perception of medical errors in patient encounters: a preliminary study
Healthcare professionals’ empathy have been empirically demonstrated to decrease the risk of medical errors. Medical errors affect patient’s outcomes and healthcare providers’ well-being.
J. Hannan+9 more
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Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors
ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla+9 more
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