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The Systems Approach to Risk Management takes the view that most Medical Errors reflect predictable human failings in the context of poorly designed systems.
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The Systems Approach to prevention of Medical Errors includes recognition of expected lapses in human vigilance in the face of system stressors, such as long work hours or predictable mistakes by inexperienced personnel in complex situations.
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Rather than focusing corrective efforts on punishment of health care providers, the Systems Approach seeks to identify and modify factors likely to give rise to human error.
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In the Systems Approach to Medical Errors, 'slips' errors and 'mistakes' errors require remedial education and/or added layers of supervision.
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In the Swiss Cheese Model, first introduced by James Reason, what is NOT one of the principles that the model teaches about management of Medical Errors?
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Researcher James Reason believes that (1) human error is inevitable, and (2) striving for perfection—or punishing individuals who make mistakes—will not significantly improve safety.
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Regarding Active Errors vs. Latent Errors: Reason used the terms 'active errors' and 'latent errors' to distinguish between errors caused by individuals and those caused by a faulty system. In this theory,
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Regarding the Systems Approach to Medical Error: 'Failure Modes Effect Analysis (FMEA)' is an approach used to analyze Medical Errors, in which we
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Moving on to the journal article pertaining to Classification of MEDICATION ERRORS: Classifying Medication Errors according to psychological theory explains HOW the error happened [and therefore how to prevent it], rather than DESCRIBING the error, e.g., 'nurse administered an overdose.'
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When a doctor knows that his patient is allergic to penicillin but prescribes cofluampicil because he doesn't know that it contains penicillin, which classification of Medication Error has occurred?
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When a nurse adds the wrong amount of a drug to an infusion bottle, what classification of medication error is this?
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A patient experiences an injection site reaction because the nurse did not have the right size needle available. She could not call the supply room for the correct needle because disturbing their lunch break was forbidden. What kind of medication error is this?
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Computerized check lists and other computerized decision-support systems are not of much use in preventing knowledge-based and memory-based medication errors.
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The classification of medication errors on the basis of the underlying psychological mechanisms, based on how errors occur, can suggest strategies that help to reduce their occurrence.
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