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    Article on Medication Errors

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    and Errors JEFFERY MCCOMAS‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNS MICHELLE RIINGEN‚ DNP‚ RN‚ CNS-BC SON CHAE KIM‚ PhD‚ RN Congress authorized an initiative in 2004 to create a national health information technology infrastructure to improve patient outcomes through increased efficiency.1 The stated goal was to have electronic health records (EHRs) implemented for all Americans by 2014.2‚3 The current literature supports the use of EHR because of the potential for higher quality of care‚ reduction in medication errors‚ ease

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    miscommunication can occur‚ especially when the listener’s expectations influence what is heard. Ambiguity – The Deadly Error In high-risk situations‚ such as those that can arise during ATC communication‚ the result of ambiguity error can be serious. A number of aviation disasters have been largely attributed to problems in communication. In these accidents‚ visual‚ contextual and other redundant cues

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    Physics: Sources of Errors

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    Introduction to Measurements & Error Analysis The Uncertainty of Measurements Some numerical statements are exact: Mary has 3 brothers‚ and 2 + 2 = 4. However‚ all measurements have some degree of uncertainty that may come from a variety of sources. The process of evaluating this uncertainty associated with a measurement result is often called uncertainty analysis or error analysis. The complete statement of a measured value should include an estimate of the level of confidence associated

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    Error Avoidance in CAS

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    2009‚ p.65). These two theories have become increasingly popular in influencing new approaches to managing healthcare organizations (Johnson‚ 2009). There are errors that managers have been trying to avoid in order to keep the organization from failing. In this paper I will discuss different errors amongst these theories. The first error to be discussed‚ According to Johnson (2009) “Failing to account for employees’ ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with

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    Reducing Medical Errors

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    Reduce Risk for Errors CPOE and EMR have been known to decrease medical errors. EMR help prevent unnecessary orders and diagnostic test. EMR also prevents duplication of the same test and orders. Medication are shown in the electronic medical record which providers have access to. The ability to access a patient’s medications without having to rely on just patient information will lower risk. A patient may not always be certain of a dosage or the exact name of a medication and the electronic medical

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    Electronic Medical Errors

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    Electronic Medical Records- Reduce Errors and Increase Efficiency with EMR Software Errors in the healthcare industry can literally cost someone his or her life‚ not to mention open the door for an unending mountain of lawsuits. In order to reduce the chances of this happening‚ your healthcare organization must be proactive about increasing efficiency‚ and reducing errors. These are two common problems that plague the healthcare industry. With electronic medical records you can significantly reduce

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    Errors and Compliance in Coding The integrity of the request for payment rests on the accuracy and honesty of the coding and billing within a practice. Incorrect work could simply be an error‚ or it could represent a deliberate effort to obtain fraudulent payment. Medical billers and coders are responsible for ensuring that these errors are limited and promptly fixed. Among the most common causes of errors in coding and billing are truncated coding‚ up-coding or down-coding‚ and using an inappropriate

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    Fundamental Attribution Error The fundamental attribution error is when a person overestimates the influence of another person’s personality over a remark or behavior rather than giving credit to the influence the situation may have on the person. A famous experiment demonstrating this “error” was conducted by David Napolitan and George Goethals. In this experiment‚ they instructed a woman to act either rude and critical‚ or warm and friendly to each person individually. Half of the group was

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    Errors in Dna Replication

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    to as semi-conservative replication. Cellular proofreading and error-checking mechanisms ensure near perfect fidelity for DNA replication. While most DNA replicates with fairly high fidelity‚ mistakes do happen‚ with polymerase enzymes sometimes inserting the wrong nucleotide or too many or too few nucleotides into a sequence. Fortunately‚ most of these mistakes are fixed through various DNA repair processes. But some replication errors make it past these mechanisms‚ thus becoming permanent mutations

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    Hawk Eye

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    processes of science and technology. The public understanding of measurement errors and confidence intervals could be enhanced if `sports-decision aids’‚ such as the Hawk-Eye system‚ were to present their results in a different way. There is a danger that Hawk-Eye as used could inadvertently cause naïve viewers to overestimate the ability of technological devices to resolve disagreement among humans because measurement errors are not made salient. For example‚ virtual reconstructions can easily be

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