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The URM Model [14] characterizes use errors in terms of the user's failure to manage a system deficiency. Six categories of use errors are described in a URM document ...
Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.
A safety-critical system [2] or life-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in one (or more) of the following outcomes: [3] [4] death or serious injury to people loss or severe damage to equipment/property
A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to meet the health needs of target populations. There is a wide variety of health systems around the world, with as many histories and organizational structures as there are countries.
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA; often written with "failure modes" in plural) is the process of reviewing as many components, assemblies, and subsystems as possible to identify potential failure modes in a system and their causes and effects. For each component, the failure modes and their resulting effects on the rest of the system ...
Although Irwin and Rippe cautioned in 2005 that the use of "multiple organ failure" or "multisystem organ failure" should be avoided, [1] both Harrison's (2015) and Cecil's (2012) medical textbooks still use the terms "multi-organ failure" and "multiple organ failure" in several chapters and do not use "multiple organ dysfunction syndrome" at all.
"No one would design a system like the one we have," Witty wrote, adding that the current health care system in the U.S. is "a patchwork built over decades." United's mission, he added, was to ...
The Beckham Company. Article from a health care consulting company. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were set off by failed safety systems. Direct article download; Cooper, Alan (2004-03-05). The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore ...