Medical errors represent a serious public health problem and pose a threat to patient safety. As health care institutions establish "error" as a clinical and research priority, the answer to perhaps the most fundamental question remains elusive: What is a medical error? To reduce medical error, accurate measurements of its incidence, based on clear and consistent definitions, are essential prer...

INTRODUCTION There is a growing public perception that serious medical error is commonplace and largely tolerated by the medical profession. The Government and medical establishment's response to this perceived epidemic of error has included tighter controls over practising doctors and individual stick-and-carrot reforms of medical practice. DISCUSSION This paper critically reviews the litera...

background and purpose: this study was designed to investigate of simulation based education in achieves skills proficiency in medical radiation technologist students. methods: the students randomly were divided in two groups, a (n=25) and b (n=22) that received a routine course and simulation based education respectively. the chain of experiments was concerned to evaluate of skills proficiency...