Psychiatry related information on Medical Errors

• These may include patient safety; incidence of medical errors; adverse drug events; patient adherence to therapy; attainment of target goals of blood pressure, glucose, and lipid levels; risk reduction for adverse cardiac events and osteoporotic-related fractures; patient satisfaction; risk of hospitalization or mortality; and cost of care [1].

High impact information on Medical Errors

• The Institute of Medicine report on medical errors [2].
• Proposed reforms include (1) requiring disclosure of medical errors and restricting the use of information disclosed as evidence of guilt; (2) outlawing confidentiality agreements when malpractice cases are settled; (3) abolishing the National Practitioner Data Bank; and (4) establishing a national patient safety authority [3].
• Polk, the ethical forces that shape a career in surgery-including their impact on the timely issue of medical errors, truth-telling, and disclosure-are discussed [4].
• An AOA critical issue. Medical errors in orthopaedics: practical pointers for prevention [5].
• Improving patient safety: moving beyond the "hype" of medical errors [6].

Biological context of Medical Errors

• The November 2000 Special Issue of Academic Emergency Medicine addressed medical errors in emergency medicine [7].

Associations of Medical Errors with chemical compounds

• About half the reported medical errors could be addressed using electronic parenteral nutrition design; however, a broader, more general approach to the entire design and administration system would reduce more errors [8].
• Baker and Norton offer an analysis for tackling medical error that, while not wrong, is very traditional in the policy solutions it recommends [9].
• Although factors affecting medical-error reporting may vary between different organizations, the process used in identifying the factors and the Factor Relevance Matrix developed in this study are easily adaptable to any organizational setting [10].
• Medical errors. Dosage nomenclature of bleomycin needs to be standardised to avoid errors [11].
• Medical errors redux. Industry braces for second Institute of Medicine report seen as 'equally radical' to first [12].

Gene context of Medical Errors

• Keeping the emphasis on safety. IOM statistics on number of medical errors 'misleading,' JAMA report says [13].
• Communication, standards, and technology. HCA creates a new system to reduce medical errors [14].
• When a medical mistake becomes a media event. Interview by Mark Crane [15].
• Medical errors. Perhaps blame-free culture is needed in NHS to reduce errors [16].
• PHA co-produces instructional videotape titled "Discussing Unanticipated Outcomes and Disclosing Medical Errors" [17].

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