US grapples with solutions to preventable medical errors

US grapples with solutions to preventable medical errors.

Perceptions of preventable medical errors in Alberta, Canada.

OBJECTIVE (i) To compare public perceptions of the frequency, responsibility, causes and solutions for preventable medical errors for persons who report and do not report having experienced a preventable medical error while receiving healthcare services in Alberta, Canada. (ii) To describe public opinion about confidentiality and disclosure of preventable medical error. (iii) To examine the rel...

Medical errors in US pediatric inpatients with chronic conditions.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between chronic conditions and iatrogenic medical errors in US pediatric inpatients. METHODS The 2006 Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) was analyzed. Medical errors were defined by using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes. Medical error rates per 100 hospital discharges and per 1000 inpatient d...

Group software assumptions lead to Preventable errors

84 COPublished by the ieee COmPuter and reliability sOCieties ■ 1540-7993/09/$26.00 © 2009 ieee ■ July/auGust 2009 original CGI specification calls for each CGI process to be executed for each Web call. FastCGI changes this model to allow a CGI to run as a long-running process and avoid the startup costs of a new process. Many CGI applications in which memory leaks weren’t considered to be a pr...

Medication Errors Are Preventable

The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) defines a "medication error" as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. At many occasions a medication error can be caught or is rectified before its administ...