Medical Harm and Patient Safety-III: Procedural Errors

Improve patient safety and reduce medical errors.

Considering the complex nature of medical practice, however, and the multitude of interventions that each patient receives, a high error rate in medicine is perhaps not surprising. Health care professionals such as physicians, nurses, and pharmacists are trained to be careful and to function at a high level of efficiency. Notwithstanding, if a system is working at 99.9% efficiency, the 0.1% err...

Patient safety: Protect yourself from medical errors

“Patient safety” has always been an important aspect of medical service. As investigative facilities and subspecialties have increased, the value of interdepartmental coordination has come into picture and is of value to avoid medical errors or in other terms of medical negligence. The relevance of the coordination increased after Supreme Court judgment in V.P. Santha Case (Since 1995), where m...

Professional errors and patient safety in intensive cardiac care unit:

Abstract Introduction: Use of progressive technology, clinical skills and caring methods appropriate to critical situations of patient in intensive Cardiac Care Unit is probably related to professional errors and disorder in patient safety. There is a little data about this subject. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore professional errors and patient safety in Cardiac Care Unit. Meth...

Patient safety and medical errors--a Singapore perspective.

Correspondence to: Peter Mack Tel: (65) 6321 4694 Fax: (65) 6220 9323 Email: gsumop@ sgh.com.sg INTRODUCTION It is a perception that medical errors are dominating the newspapers these days, but there is as yet no available data as to the extent of the problem in Singapore. Nor is there a clear reason why we should expect our incidence to be any different from that of other countries. What is cl...

Medical errors, patient safety, and the law: ten years later.