Harmful errors: how will your facility respond?

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Harmful errors: how will your facility respond?

April 29, 2018

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. October 5, 2006.

This article outlines an organizational plan to prepare an effective and just response to medical error.

Free full text

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Safety considerations for challenges when using smart infusion pumps.

November 2, 2022

Survey results from pharmacists provide support to enhance the organizational response to codes.

October 26, 2022

A crack in our best armor: "wrong patient" injections from insulin pens alarmingly frequent even with barcode scanning.

November 5, 2014

The "Dirty Dozen": 12 persistent safety gaffes that we need to resolve!

October 22, 2014

Survey suggests disrespectful behaviors persist in healthcare: practitioners speak up (yet again) – Parts I and II.

March 15, 2022

IV vincristine survey shows safety improvements needed.

April 29, 2018

Double key bounce and double keying errors.

April 25, 2018

IV potassium given epidurally: getting to the "route" of the problem.

April 29, 2018

Pharmaceutical industry and medical device companies: part of the solution?

April 29, 2018

Practitioners agree on medication reconciliation value, but frustration and difficulties abound.

April 29, 2018

Related Resources

Annual Perspective

Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality

April 26, 2023

Pump up the volume: tips for increasing error reporting and decreasing patient harm.

September 8, 2021

Improving employee voice about transgressive or disruptive behavior: a case study.

April 17, 2019

The "Seven Pillars" response to patient safety incidents: effects on medical liability processes and outcomes.

September 1, 2018

Our long journey towards a safety-minded just culture. Part I: Where we've been.

April 29, 2018

When errors occur.

March 8, 2015

The effect of the fit between organizational culture and structure on medication errors in medical group practices.

January 14, 2011

Learning from mistakes in New Zealand hospitals: what else do we need besides "no-fault"?

October 19, 2010

What pilots can teach hospitals about patient safety.

August 5, 2008

Perspective

Key Issues in Developing a Successful Hospital Safety Program

July 1, 2006

See More About The Topic

Facility and Group Administrators

Organizational Behaviorists

Medicine

Institutional Reporting

Patient Disclosure

Harmful errors: how will your facility respond?

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Harmful errors: how will your facility respond?

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users