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Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Improving health care quality and ensuring patient safety is impossible without addressing medical errors that adversely affect patient outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to correctly estimate the incidence rates and implement the most appropriate solutions to control and reduc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9363709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35966854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.875426 |
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author | Ahsani-Estahbanati, Ehsan Sergeevich Gordeev, Vladimir Doshmangir, Leila |
author_facet | Ahsani-Estahbanati, Ehsan Sergeevich Gordeev, Vladimir Doshmangir, Leila |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIM: Improving health care quality and ensuring patient safety is impossible without addressing medical errors that adversely affect patient outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to correctly estimate the incidence rates and implement the most appropriate solutions to control and reduce medical errors. We identified such interventions. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of systematic reviews by searching four databases (PubMed, Scopus, Ovid Medline, and Embase) until January 2021 to elicit interventions that have the potential to decrease medical errors. Two reviewers independently conducted data extraction and analyses. RESULTS: Seventysix systematic review papers were included in the study. 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. Most studies focused on medication error (66%) and were conducted in hospital settings (74%). CONCLUSIONS: Despite a plethora of suggested interventions, patient safety has not significantly improved. Therefore, policymakers need to focus more on the implementation considerations of selected interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-93637092022-08-11 Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews Ahsani-Estahbanati, Ehsan Sergeevich Gordeev, Vladimir Doshmangir, Leila Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine BACKGROUND AND AIM: Improving health care quality and ensuring patient safety is impossible without addressing medical errors that adversely affect patient outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to correctly estimate the incidence rates and implement the most appropriate solutions to control and reduce medical errors. We identified such interventions. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of systematic reviews by searching four databases (PubMed, Scopus, Ovid Medline, and Embase) until January 2021 to elicit interventions that have the potential to decrease medical errors. Two reviewers independently conducted data extraction and analyses. RESULTS: Seventysix systematic review papers were included in the study. 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. Most studies focused on medication error (66%) and were conducted in hospital settings (74%). CONCLUSIONS: Despite a plethora of suggested interventions, patient safety has not significantly improved. Therefore, policymakers need to focus more on the implementation considerations of selected interventions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9363709/ /pubmed/35966854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.875426 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ahsani-Estahbanati, Sergeevich Gordeev and Doshmangir. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Ahsani-Estahbanati, Ehsan Sergeevich Gordeev, Vladimir Doshmangir, Leila Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews |
title | Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews |
title_full | Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews |
title_fullStr | Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews |
title_full_unstemmed | Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews |
title_short | Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: A systematic review of systematic reviews |
title_sort | interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its financial burden in health care systems: a systematic review of systematic reviews |
topic | Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9363709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35966854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.875426 |
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