Medical error
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- Information about medical error is inadequate for researchers because most errors go unreported.
- Thus medical error is ubiquitous and the costs are substantial.
- One of the global factors that should be evaluated in considering medical error is the stress inherent in today's medical environment.
- As a consultant I can apply my knowledge of psychology to promote the approach that medical error is the result of contributing factors in the context of care, to identify those factors, and to advise modifications to reduce the likelihood of error.
- The IOM study points out that even if you assume the lower figure of 44,000 deaths per year, medical error is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, ahead of car crashes, breast cancer and AIDS.
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