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If all medical errors were counted together as a single cause, they would likely rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States. As health care personnel race to improve the quality of ...

In the mid-1990s, researching a book about the quality of medical care, I discovered how the profession had for years been ignoring evidence about the appalling death toll from preventable medical ...

Medical errors kill some 100,000 Americans every year. How we can reverse the trend.

Three years before the Institute of Medicine issued To Err is Human, its 1999 report on medical errors, the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare ...

Then, using hospital admission rates from 2013, they extrapolated that based on a total of 35,416,020 hospitalizations, 251,454 deaths stemmed from a medical error, which the researchers say now ...

The Joint Commission's latest Sentinel Event Alert urges healthcare leaders to become more involved in the prevention of medical errors at their facilities, as well as to take more responsibility ...

When a provider is disciplined for an error, others become more fearful that they will be treated unfairly. They are less likely to report mistakes, preventing insight into systemic issues.

6591 Background: The medical care of oncological patients is a multidisciplinary task. The nurse is a key member of the team. The aim of this study is to analyze the incidence rate and the type of ...

Researchers believe medical errors may be third cause of death in U.S. — -- Medical errors may be responsible for far more deaths than previously realized, according to a new study published ...

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