Preventable Medical Error (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! According to WHO, medical errors affect one in 10 patients worldwide. As a general acceptance, a medical error occurs when a health-care provider chose an inappropriate method of care or the health provider chose the right solution of care but executed it incorrectly. Medical errors are often described as human errors in healthcare. Human error has been implicated in nearly 80 percent of adverse events that occur in complex healthcare systems. The vast majority of medical errors result from faulty systems and poorly designed processes versus poor practices or incompetent practitioners. All medical errors are a significant patient safety concern. Those "medical errors" that are considered "preventable" represent an area for continued research. This research is necessary as the majority of medical errors are considered to be preventable.