Medical Errors Reports Samples For Students

Introduction

The article, “Hospital blunders caused 32 deaths” by Kate Hagan who is a health reporter for AGE sources explores the disasters and catastrophes of Victorian hospitals that took place over the year 2009 -2011 years. A lot of these mistakes involved things from a procedure concerning a certain body part or wrong patient, an infection control breach and medication mix-ups. The author stresses the point that all of these mistakes were caused by hospital staff. This article really raises concerns about hospital care in Australia. It is also apparent how that the data is displayed for the first time. Also the article ...

The Never Event Plan from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Research indicates that about 44000 to 98000 deaths take place yearly within the US resulting from preventable medical errors (Kohn, Corrigan & Donaldson, 2010). According to reports by CDC, in the year 2002, about 99000 deaths occurred due to preventable or avoidable hospital-acquired infections (Klevens et al., 2009, p. 160). Moreover, studies reveal that medical errors can account for over 2.4 million additional hospital days as well as 9.3 billion USD in excess charges (Kohn, Corrigan & Donaldson, 2010). As a result, of these alarming statistics as well as shocking medical errors, efforts have existed to enhance the delivery of medical care ...

In the United States, a national system for determine qualified health care providers does not exist. Local and state governments as well as professional organizations are responsible for providing people with credentialing information about healthcare providers. In my state, the department of health is responsible for providing the public with the necessary information on practitioners’ qualification. My state has a license data base called the provider credential search where on the department of health website where the public can go to find out the information about healthcare providers. https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/providercredentialsearch/SearchCriteria.aspx. The state department of health provides this information as a service to its ...

Current system

In Naxvegas Hospital, the use of paper-based health records has always been in use since it was established. The system requires the development of a personal manual health record where the patient information is recorded and stored. The hospital has health records department where the documented patient records are filed in a systematic order. The files have accumulated over time, and the need for more office space has been a burning issue. The system has employed the terminal digit filing system in the filing area (Bleich, Howard, Slack & Warner, 2010). This helps easy documentation, filing and retrieval of the patient information though ...