Medical Errors Prevention & Reporting for Dietitians(#107328)
Section I. Course Objectives Section II. Medical Errors
Prevalence & Root Causes Section III. Medication Errors Section
IV. Building a Culture of Safety Section VII. State Legal
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Objectives Newspaper and television stories of catastrophic
injuries occurring at the hands of clinicians spotlight the
problem of medical error but provide little insight into its
nature or magnitude. The prevalence of medical errors in the
United States is a significant and ongoing problem. Medical
errors are the eighth leading cause of wrongful death in the
U.S. In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released
a report