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We hear stories in the news about cases of medical malpractice that could have been prevented. For your initial post, conduct research for ways to prevent medical malpractice cases. Provide at least 3 ways to prevent these types of cases. How will these prevention measures lead to a decrease in malpractice cases?
Malpractice is the most inappropriate thing in the medical feild. MAlpractice in the healthcare system may leads to serious injuries or leads to death of the patient. So the malpractices in the medical feild is considered as a criminal case.
MAlpractices occur in the medical feild in different ways. It is may be due to the healthcare professionals activity, irresponsibility or may be due to the inappropriatness of medical equipments.
To prevent the malpractices in medical feild we should take some steps such as:
Provide appropriate education and practices to the healthcare professionals. Most of the malpractices in the healthcare system occurs due to the lack of skill or knowledge of the professionals about the procedure. Mistakes in the medical interventions such as in surgeries or other procedures like medication administration due to lack of knowledge and skill may lead to the death of patient. So we should improve the skills and knowledge in each feild.
Proper communication should be maintained inbetween he healthcare professionals. As we know healthcare system work by a team. The care that provided to a person is not by a single professional but by a team, the healthxcare team. SO proper communication and coordination of healthcare team is essential to avoid the risk of malpractice.