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Article: Differences in perioperative medication errors with regard to organization characteristics.
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- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Medical errors resulting in preventable adverse events have been reported to be the eighth leading cause of death in the United States/ and it is projected that one in every 10 patients entering a hospital will experience some form of harm that results in severe disability or death? A landmark report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die annually from preventable medical errors. (1) Another report estimated that as many as 195,000 people die each year from preventable errors that occur in hospitals. (3) Medication errors contribute significantly to the total number of overall ...