Medical Errors: Misunderstandings Can Do Harm

Course overview

Medical Errors:Human Error or System Error? Medical Errors course. The IOM Committee of Quality of Healthcare in America defines the Medical Error as a harm caused to the patient as a result of ¿the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.¿(IOM, 1999). Rarely do errors happen in isolation.