Accreditation's role in reducing medical errors

The role of information technology in reducing medical errors.

This Article summarizes the discussion at a breakout session held at the American Health Lawyers Association's (Health Lawyers') 2003 Public Interest Colloquium,' Minimizing Medical Errors: Legal Issues in the Debate on Improving Patient Safety, held February 28-March 1, 2003, in Washington, DC. The authors developed a series of core questions identifying relevant legal and policy issues relati...

Reducing the rate of medical errors in the United States.

Medical errors cost tens of thousands of lives in US hospitals each year—more than deaths from highway accidents, breast cancer, and AIDS combined. Studies have put the numbers of deaths anywhere from 44 000 to 98 000 annually in hospitals. However, these numbers could go much higher if the numbers of people who die as a result of errors in day-surgery and outpatient clinics, retail pharmacies,...

Use of Wireless Technology for Reducing Medical Errors

Introduction We have established that inadequate access to timely information and ineffective communication among patient care team members are frequent events that are proximal causes of medical errors. We are exploring the use of wireless mobile computing technology to help reduce these problems through extensions to the Web-based clinical information system at New York Presbyterian Hospital ...

Reducing medical errors: an essential aspect of neurosurgical practice.

The role of managed care pharmacy in reducing medication errors.

OBJECTIVE To outline some of the causes of medication errors and recommend ways that managed care pharmacy organizations and managed care pharmacists can prevent some of these errors through practitioner and patient education. BACKGROUND Patient safety has become a major concern since the November 1999 release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human. Errors involving prescr...