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1 sty 2008 · This study which involved 12 focus groups formed from 127 members of staff within Patan Hospital in the Kathmandu Valley sought to understand Nepali staff attitudes to medical errors and suggest how they could be handled.
The Institute of Medicine has recommended establishing mandatory error reporting systems for hospitals and other health settings. To examine the opinions and experiences of hospital leaders...
Medical Negligence is a subject of interest not only in Nepal but in the whole world. “More Americans die as a result of medical errors made in hospitals than as a result of injuries from automobile accidents” concluded a report published by Institute Of Medicine, New York1,2. What does this imply?
25 maj 2021 · This study was conducted to assess prescription errors occurred in a tertiary care hospital in Nepal. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Internal Medicine Department of Lumbini Medical College over five months of duration.
We identified eight types of interventions based on medical error type classification: overall medical error, medication error, diagnostic error, patients fall, healthcare-associated infections, transfusion and testing errors, surgical error, and patient suicide.
12 lut 2024 · Unintentional medical errors will likely always occur. However, the risk of medical errors may be significantly reduced by encouraging error reporting, standardized communication systems, electronic data and order entry, medication reconciliations, and error prevention clinical care protocols.
We report two cases which highlight the fact how poor communication leads to dangerously poor health outcome. We present the case of a 50-year-old woman recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis from Southern Nepal presented to Patan hospital ...
