Sentence examples for medical errors described from inspiring English sources
Elisabeth Ochs San Francisco, Aug. 21, 2010 To the Editor: There are steps that the Food and Drug Administration could immediately take that would dramatically reduce the tragic medical errors described in your article.
As one of the most provocative sessions of the symposium, Dr Beverley Orser introduced the scope of medical errors by describing the high human and medical cost of errors.
A relationship between the severity of the outcome and judgments of medical errors has been described.
This may reflect the lacking of medical knowledge from patients' side to describe medical errors, particularly related to its causes [ 17].
Such a finding is similar to what was found by Van Vorst and colleagues in their study which showed that at least 41% of the 180 reported mistakes received were not judged to be medical mistakes when coded with a taxonomy designed to specifically describe medical errors [ 17].
In 2000, the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations described systemic medical errors as "fundamentally an information problem" and called for the development of programs to collect and analyze medical error data.
Negative encounters in healthcare has been described as medical errors, 1 communication failures or medical mishaps, 2 patient dissatisfaction, 3 sexual misconduct, 4 etc.
A fictional scenario based on a compilation of several real events describes seven medical errors that at first appear to be caused by the paramedics and nurses involved.
It will describe poor care, medical errors and management blunders at the 14 Trusts which have been investigated over high mortality rates.
Sandars and Esmail 2 described a frequency of 5 80 medical errors per 100 000 consultations in primary care patients.
Archana et al. [5] described patient safety lapses due to gaps in information flow as a result of deficiencies in multitasking, and the Institute of Medicine describes interruptions as contributing factors to medical errors [6].
