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Pediatric Drugs, 2009
Medication errors commonly involve children, with dosing errors being the most common. Medication errors are more frequent among the most sick patients who have urgent and complex medical conditions. Physicians who are less experienced, tired, depressed, and burnt out make more errors. The systems approach views every medical error as a system failure.
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Medication errors commonly involve children, with dosing errors being the most common. Medication errors are more frequent among the most sick patients who have urgent and complex medical conditions. Physicians who are less experienced, tired, depressed, and burnt out make more errors. The systems approach views every medical error as a system failure.
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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume, 2009
A patient with severe arthritis of the hip and shortening of the ipsilateral extremity undergoes hip replacement surgery with correction of the limb-length discrepancy. At the time of the postoperative examination, he is found to have a complete foot drop.
James D, Capozzi, Rosamond, Rhodes
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A patient with severe arthritis of the hip and shortening of the ipsilateral extremity undergoes hip replacement surgery with correction of the limb-length discrepancy. At the time of the postoperative examination, he is found to have a complete foot drop.
James D, Capozzi, Rosamond, Rhodes
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Pediatrics In Review, 2020
1. Sophie K. Shaikh, MD, MPH* 2. Sarah P. Cohen, MD*,† 1. *Department of Pediatrics and 2. †Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC Medical errors are alarmingly frequent, with as many as 250,000 deaths per year being attributable to medical error.
Shaikh, Sophie K, Cohen, Sarah P
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1. Sophie K. Shaikh, MD, MPH* 2. Sarah P. Cohen, MD*,† 1. *Department of Pediatrics and 2. †Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC Medical errors are alarmingly frequent, with as many as 250,000 deaths per year being attributable to medical error.
Shaikh, Sophie K, Cohen, Sarah P
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Orthopaedic Nursing, 2001
Errors in health care are receiving much attention today, although committing such errors is not a new phenomenon. Nurses are taught procedures so that they are less likely to make mistakes. Yet nurses do make errors. Although many types of errors can and do occur in the health care setting, this article focuses on a discussion of medication errors and
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Errors in health care are receiving much attention today, although committing such errors is not a new phenomenon. Nurses are taught procedures so that they are less likely to make mistakes. Yet nurses do make errors. Although many types of errors can and do occur in the health care setting, this article focuses on a discussion of medication errors and
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AWHONN Lifelines, 2004
Medication errors are perhaps the most common type of error occurring in health care settings; the effects of these types of errors span the gamut from no harm to death. It's widely held today that the majority of errors result from latent errors within a complex health care system, rather than from individual clinician performances. Open discussion of
Suzanne C, Beyea +3 more
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Medication errors are perhaps the most common type of error occurring in health care settings; the effects of these types of errors span the gamut from no harm to death. It's widely held today that the majority of errors result from latent errors within a complex health care system, rather than from individual clinician performances. Open discussion of
Suzanne C, Beyea +3 more
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International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare, 2013
Patients' awareness and informed involvement may reduce the prevalence of patients' errors. The aim of this study is to identify the occurrence of patients' medication errors in one of the leading tertiary care educational superspeciality hospitals in Iran during one year from October 2010 to October 2011. This is a retrospective study.
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani +2 more
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Patients' awareness and informed involvement may reduce the prevalence of patients' errors. The aim of this study is to identify the occurrence of patients' medication errors in one of the leading tertiary care educational superspeciality hospitals in Iran during one year from October 2010 to October 2011. This is a retrospective study.
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Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2006
Medical errors in the general medical sector result in significant patient deaths and injuries, as well as high costs to the health care system. Despite the growing literature on errors in medical and surgical specialties, few studies have examined the incidence, nature, predictors, and prevention of errors that may occur in mental health treatment ...
Sara B, Nath, Steven C, Marcus
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Medical errors in the general medical sector result in significant patient deaths and injuries, as well as high costs to the health care system. Despite the growing literature on errors in medical and surgical specialties, few studies have examined the incidence, nature, predictors, and prevention of errors that may occur in mental health treatment ...
Sara B, Nath, Steven C, Marcus
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Chemotherapy medication errors
The Lancet Oncology, 2018Although chemotherapy is a well established treatment modality, chemotherapy errors represent a potentially serious risk of patient harm. We reviewed published research from 1980 to 2017 to understand the extent and nature of medication errors in cancer chemotherapy, and to identify effective interventions to help prevent mistakes.
Saul N, Weingart +3 more
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Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2002
This article discusses principal concepts for the analysis, classification, and reporting of problems involving medical device technology. We define a medical device in regulatory terminology and define and discuss concepts and terminology used to distinguish the causes and sources of medical device problems. Database classification systems for medical
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This article discusses principal concepts for the analysis, classification, and reporting of problems involving medical device technology. We define a medical device in regulatory terminology and define and discuss concepts and terminology used to distinguish the causes and sources of medical device problems. Database classification systems for medical
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1960
With an increasing number of new chemical and biological preparations on the market, the screening of some 50,000 chemicals for cancer annually, the development of new dosage recommendations for older pharmacological products, and the relentless effort to discover causes of disease, the medical profession is faced with the problem of having to rely on ...
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With an increasing number of new chemical and biological preparations on the market, the screening of some 50,000 chemicals for cancer annually, the development of new dosage recommendations for older pharmacological products, and the relentless effort to discover causes of disease, the medical profession is faced with the problem of having to rely on ...
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