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A new way to catch preventable medical mistakes?
Posted on Dec 29, 2009
Preventable medical mistakes are estimated to kill anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 people every year in the United States, and medical experts and hospitals have been struggling to find ways to catch these errors before they kill or harm patients.
Not only are preventable medical mistakes of concern to healthcare professionals, near-miss medical mistakes are a concern as well. There is no way to count the number of near-misses that happen every year – mistakes that could have happened had they not been caught in time – and this is of great concern.
One internal medicine specialist believes that doctors and hospitals can cut down on the number preventable medical mistakes by keeping track of these near-miss cases. The specialist, Dr. Ethan Fried, the Vice Chairman for Education for the Department of Medicine at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, has created a near-miss registry.
This registry Dr. Fried created is an online reporting system that allows doctors and other healthcare professionals to anonymously report details of a near-miss, a medical mistake that was corrected before it harmed the patient. Health agencies and hospitals can then use this “treasure trove” of information to pinpoint weaknesses in the healthcare system, and make changes or educate doctors so the mistake does not recur.
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