1998
DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.16.1444
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Promoting Patient Safety by Preventing Medical Error

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“…[3][4][5] Since 1994 there have been a number of efforts to study adverse events in medicine and establish strategies to reduce them, including the founding of the National Patient Safety Foundation as a branch of the American Medical Association, the revision of the policy on medical error reporting of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the establishment of a patient safety improvement initiative at the Veterans Administration. 6,7 Where does EM fit into this? The Harvard Medical Practice Study reported that 3% of adverse events uncovered occurred in EDs.…”
Section: Medical Error In the 1990smentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[3][4][5] Since 1994 there have been a number of efforts to study adverse events in medicine and establish strategies to reduce them, including the founding of the National Patient Safety Foundation as a branch of the American Medical Association, the revision of the policy on medical error reporting of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the establishment of a patient safety improvement initiative at the Veterans Administration. 6,7 Where does EM fit into this? The Harvard Medical Practice Study reported that 3% of adverse events uncovered occurred in EDs.…”
Section: Medical Error In the 1990smentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The presence of incidents and adverse events, which compromise the safety of the patient, currently constitutes a great challenge for the improvement of the quality in the health area (3) . Aimed at a program for the continuous improvement of the institution, it is necessary to guarantee the existence of mechanisms for the prevention and minimization of errors, among them, indicating how to perform the notification and analysis of the errors, how to establish corrective and preventive actions, and how professionals are reported about the development of these analysis (4) .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A literatura sobre o erro médico é diversa, pelo que interessa-nos restringi-la aqui aos tópicos que melhor podem contribuir para enquadrar esta investigação: a preocupação em definir o conceito, para que possa ser efetivamente medido (Grober;Bohnen, 2005;Sandars;Esmail, 2003;Weingart et al, 2000); a importância em conhecer e debater o erro médico como forma de promover a segurança dos pacientes, colocando-os como atores centrais do processo (Blendon et al, 2002;Leape et al, 1998;OMS, 2008apud Mansoa, 2010; e, ainda, o posicionamento de diferentes agentes face à necessidade ou vantagem em divulgar, aos pacientes, à comunidade profissional e ao público, os erros médicos (Pierluisi et al, 2003;Gallagher et al, 2003;Hébert;Levin;Robertson, 2001;Uribe et al, 2002).…”
Section: O Erro Médico: Dimensões Do Conceito E Implicações Para a Suunclassified