Question

In examining the list of the top ten causes of medical errors, are there any detectable patterns or categories of errors you would devise? Are any of these errors directly related exclusively to human error? If an error was caused, in part, by the health issues of the patient, should it be considered the hospital or health professional’s error? Do the measurements of quality in a nursing home include any of the ten medical errors identified in Van Den Bos’ analysis? Should they

Answer 1

INTRODUCTION

Medical errors play an important role in determining medical malpractice in the healthcare system. Here are the ten essential medical errors listed.

TOP 10 MEDICAL ERRORS

1.Misdiagnose

2.Treating wrong patient

3.Surgical tools left inside the patients body

4.Air bubbles in the blood

5.Hospital acuired infections

6.Wrong medication

7. Lab errors

8.Euipment failure

9.Patient falls

10.Lack of cordinated care

From this list we can conclude that most of the errors has a common pattern, that is the irresponsibility of the hospital staff. Even they can make mistakes, and this errors can have serious impact on patients. Most patients are accidentally injured or killed due to the irresponsibility of doctors and medical staff, who have failed to check twice their medical records and diagnosis before initiating the treatment plan.

HUMAN PROBLEMS

It occur when standards of care, policies, processes, or procedures are not followed properly or efficiently. It include poor documentation and labeling of specimens. Knowledge-based errors occur when individuals do not have adequate knowledge to provide the care that is required when it is needed.

If error is occur due to health problem of the patient it wont be considered as health care proffessionals error. Because for example, if a patient is allergic to penicillin and it is not known before to him or others. If it is providing there is an issue can occur . It is not a medical proffessionals mistake.