OBJECTIVE This study compares medical errors in pediatric trauma patients with and without chronic conditions. METHODS The 2009 Kids' Inpatient Database, which included 123,303 trauma discharges, was analyzed. Medical errors were identified by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis codes. The medical error rates per 100 discharges and per 100...

INTRODUCTION Health care organizations are highly specialized and complex. Thus we may expect the adverse events will inevitably occur. Building a medical error reporting system to analyze the reported preventable adverse events and learn from their results can help to prevent the repeat of these events. The medical errors which were reported to the Clinical Governance's office of Mazandaran Un...

Background and Objectives: In recent decades medical errors have become a major issue for scientific investigation to avoid potential harmful failures threatening patients’ health and safety. Developing risk management culture has been considered not only to play an important role in detecting and coping effectively with such errors but also lead to high level ...

This paper focuses on an approach to improve automatic phonetic transcription of proper nouns. The method is based on a two-level iterative process that extract the phonetic variants from the audio signals before filtering the irrelevant variants. The evaluation of the method shows a decreasing of the Word Error Rate (WER) on segments of speech with proper nouns, without affecting negatively th...

medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. we assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in tehran. we also investigated the effect of emergency department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful medic...

BACKGROUND In the late 1990s, medical error came into focus as a problem to be explicitly acknowledged and addressed. Research on this topic is amassing in the epidemiology of medical error and the system and human factors that contribute to error. In addition, however, an understanding of medical errors in terms of the underlying decision process is needed. OBJECTIVE To present an individual...