… Since then a number of initiatives in patient safety have been undertaken at both the state
… efforts at preventing patient injuries, particularly those due to medication errors. Reports of …

… magnitude and potential of medical errors are huge and becoming a fixture in health care
[2]. Medical errors and AEs are the main reasons for harm being caused to patients, with the …

… and (3) existing medication safety programs including reporting systems. We concentrated
on medication errors because they are one of the most frequent types of error in hospitals, 12 …

… focusing on patient safety. This article reviews issues in patient safety related to the inpatient
setting. The epidemiology of adverse events among hospitalized patients is examined, and …

… error-free care. This paper seeks to investigate how best to determine what clinically significant
medical errors … regarding the topic of medical error and patient safety: detection, teaching, …

… reporting is a well implemented tool for improving patient safety, our results show that many
physicians do not feel free to report errors. Research on the decision making of physicians, …

… are to improve patient safety, we must all speak the same language. The definition of
medical error we have proposed explicitly addresses the key domains of error causation and …

… Thus, the primary response of the medical culture to the patient safety/medical error concern
has been to request a systems-based response to error that would focus on improving the …

… of medical error fails to acknowledge that patients can contribute to, or avoid, errors both in
… Whereas the accepted view of medical error depersonalises error by attributing it to groups …

… The concept of authority gradient was introduced to medicine in the Institute of Medicine … in
the medical literature regarding its role in medical error. The practice of medicine and medical …