Updated December. 1, 2009
Information about medical errors, a leading health problem, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's efforts to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety.http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errorsix.htm
Updated December. 1, 2009
Medical error is an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis and/or treatment of a disease; injury; syndrome; behavior; infection or other ailment. In the U.S., medical errors are ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_error
Updated November. 30, 2009
An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 ...http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/11856.php