To enhance patient safety, data about actual clinical events must be collected and
scrutinized. This paper has two purposes. First, it provides an overview of some of the …

Recent reports have identified medical errors as a significant cause of morbidity and
mortality among patients. A variety of approaches have been implemented to identify errors …

And the Lord said,'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is
only the beginning of what they will do... Come, let us go down, and there confuse their …

Background Errors in medical care are discovered through a variety of mechanisms.
Historically, medical errors were revealed retrospectively through morbidity and mortality …

Background A nonroutine event is any aspect of clinical care perceived by clinicians or
trained observers as a deviation from optimal care based on the context of the clinical …

Objective: As a result of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human, the
Department of Defense (DoD), per the direction of President Clinton, developed an action …

The performance of patient safety initiatives has not met expected targets for reasons that
are gradually being understood. They have been too hospital-centered and too process-and …

The guarantee of quality of care and patient safety is of major importance in hospitals even
though increased economic pressure and work intensification are ubiquitously present …

Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being
carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research …

Medical errors and patient safety issues remain a significant problem for the healthcare
industry in the United States. The Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human reported that …