Question

Why do you think medical errors are so common? What should health care providers do to reduce medical errors? What can patients do to reduce medical errors? How can we raise awareness about the importance of reducing medical errors?

Answer 1

ANS) We know that nowadays the medical errors are very common in our most of the medical institutions,

Some of the reasons why the medical errors are common are,

* one of the major reason is the mistakes in the conveying of information or commonly we can say as communication issue.This issues mainly occur among the doctors,nurses or clients.

* The next important reason is human issues and this can happen at the time when the quality of care,strategies or plan of actions are not obeyed systematically and clearly.

* Another one is the technical problems and this can involve the difficulties and lack of success by medical equipment or tools.

* Insufficient data flow is also an reason.This is because,the important data didn't followed the client when this client is moved to a different medical institution or discharged from a institution to next institution.

The healthcare providers can do a lot in reducing the medical errors and they are,

* Increase the data access,because the increased information can only results in a perfect decision.So the clients should get the access to important and entire details.

* Modify the work timetable.The insufficiency in employees for a particular work and regularly changing work shift of workers can really result in medical errors.

* The enhanced communication can decrease the errors.Convey the information directly between the working group.

* Select the perfect employees for the job.All the employees must be perfectly trained to do their job efficiently.

The patients can also take part in reducing the medical errors.They can reduce the errors by,

* Communicate clearly with your pharmacist.

* Obey the correct drug reuniting strategies.

* Avoid the mistakes in medical institution.

* Talk to the doctor and understand everything that you want to know about your disease conditions,scanning and treatments.

* Record the complete details of your disease condition.

The medication errors will leads to notable consequences on patients welfare.The noticing of error and by successful reporting network reveal medication mistakes and support patient welfare procedures.So we can say that the enhancing of patient welfare is possible with decreasing the common reasons for medication errors.

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