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What are Medical Errors?
A medical error may be defined as a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment.
Examples of Medical Errors are:
- Misdiagnosis of an illness, failure to diagnose or delay of a diagnosis. This type of error could be a direct mistake of a doctor or caused when the doctor is acting on incorrect information supplied by some other person.
- Giving the wrong drug or (wrong patient, wrong chemical, wrong dose, wrong time, wrong route)
- Giving two or more drugs that interact unfavorably or cause poisonous metabolic byproducts
- Wrong-site surgery, such as amputating the wrong limb
- Retained surgical instruments. In particular, gossypiboma, resulting from a surgical sponge being left behind inside the patient after surgery
- Patients' implementation of drugs and treatments
- Using race as a diagnosis, not a factor
- Transplanting organs of the wrong blood type
- Incorrect record-keeping
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Human Factors and Safety
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This course is an introduction to the field of "human factors": how to incorporate knowledge of human behavior, especially human frailty, in the design of safe systems. You’ll explore case studies to analyze the human factors issues involved in health care situations. And you’ll learn how to use human factors principles to design safer systems ... |
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Professional Liability Risks for Family and General Practice
Provided by: Medical Interactive Community
Primary care physicians are in short supply, posing the risk of patient overload and increased medical error. Malpractice claims for Family and General Practitioners are on the rise. This Internet presentation reviews the most common medical misadventures for Family and General Practice (missed or delayed diagnosis of myocardial infarction, breast ... |
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Communicating with Patients After Adverse Events
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
You chose to work in health care in order to care for people. So when you accidentally harm a patient, it can be exceptionally hard to talk about it. In this course, you’ll learn why communicating with patients after adverse events can feel so difficult for health care professionals – and why it’s nonetheless essential. You’ll learn what to... |
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Disclosure of Medical Error: A Physician's Risk Management Guide
Provided by: Medical Interactive Community
Discussing adverse medical events with patient and family is perhaps the most difficult conversation physicians will undertake. Too often, physicians postpone, delegate or avoid these difficult conversations. Prompt, empathic communication initiated by the physician is the best way to safeguard the doctor-patient relationship and reduce the risk ... |
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Beyond Informed Consent (US)
Provided by: Medical Interactive Community
Patients have more choices than ever before about new procedures and treatments. The proliferation of medical news in the popular media fuels unrealistic expectations for a perfect outcome, making a truly Informed Consent more important than ever. However, Informed Consent continues to be a source of medical error and medical malpractice claims. ... |
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Root Cause and Systems Analysis
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This course introduces students to a systematic response to error called root cause analysis (RCA). The goal of RCA is to learn from adverse events and prevent them from happening in the future. The three lessons in this course explain RCA in detail, using case studies and examples from both industry and health care. By the end, you’ll learn a st... |
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Medical Error Prevention and Root Cause Analysis
Provided by: NetCE
The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 1999 publication To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, illuminated the unfortunate reality of medical errors in the healthcare industry. The report reviewed the prevalence of medical errors in the United States and highlighted measures that should be taken to prevent them. Specifically, the authors of th... |
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Fundamentals of Patient Safety
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of patient safety. You’ll learn the different types of errors, why errors occur, and how they can be prevented. You’ll understand effective and ineffective strategies for responding to errors when they do occur – especially with the goal of reducing, and ultimately eliminating, th... |
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Prevention of Medical Errors
Provided by: Anderson CE
The course must include a study of rootcause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety.... |
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Diagnostic Error & Claims: Reducing the Risk
Provided by: Medical Interactive Community
Diagnostic Error has been described as the New Frontier in Patient Safety. Claims data supports this contention. A large study by the Rand Corporation has demonstrated that patient adverse events and medical malpractice claims go hand in hand … and that reducing one can be expected to reduce the other. This is important information for stakeho... |
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Florida Mandated Prevention of Medical Errors 2 Hours Course for Nursing, Dental and Other Healthcare Professionals.
Provided by: Biologix Solutions, LLC
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Summarize the types of medical errors.
List factors that increase the risk of medical errors.
Define populations of special vulnerability.
Identify responsibilities for reporting medical errors.
Explain processes for improving patient outcomes.
Discuss public education measures related to p... |
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Introduction to Patient Safety
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
No one embarks on a health care career intending to harm patients. But much too often, patients die or suffer injuries from the care they receive. In this course, you’ll learn why becoming a student of patient safety is critical for everyone involved in health care today. First, you’ll learn about the human and financial toll of medical error a... |
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Prescription Errors and Their Legal Consequences: Best Practices for Prevention
Provided by: Power-Pak C.E.®
This program is designed to investigate possible causes of prescription medication errors from a legal standpoint by providing the most current data available and presenting strategies to improve safety in health care. ... |
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Fundamentals of Improvement
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Serious errors occur at the best hospitals and clinics – despite the best efforts of talented and dedicated providers. As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) declared in 2001, in words that still ring true, “Between the health care we have and the care we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm.â€
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