However, current NDE data collection is manually conducted and thus faces with several problems such as prone to human errors, safety risks due to open traffic, and high cost process.
Related research shows that when a positive patient safety culture exists, it will promote patient safety and help to improve patient safety standards, including the capacity and willingness to report minor errors, self-reporting errors, safety behaviors and safety audit rating [ 7- 9].
The loss of 167 lives was caused by a range of factors including human error, poor safety training and poor safety management systems.
Undetected error in safety critical contexts generates a latent condition that can contribute to a future safety failure.
In a report released last month, Swiss investigators pinpointed pilot error and safety lapses that contributed to the accident.
"There was no system to catch the error, no safety net at all," he says.
Second, simultaneous task performance ('multitasking') which may contribute to medical error, impaired safety behaviour, and stress.
Her Honours Thesis investigated automatic and controlled cognitive processing in the elderly and her research interests are medication error, patient safety and workarounds.
Medline, CINAHL, and Google Scholar were searched from 1998 2010 using the following search terms: medication communication, medication management, medication error, patient safety, and/or ambulatory care.
And the inquiry has heard calls for NHS staff to be put under a legal "duty of candour" about errors, patient safety alerts to be taken much more seriously and hospitals to be prosecuted for safety lapses.
