36614/310714 MEDICAL ERRORS: PARTS 1 AND 2

Course overview

1. Identify four key factors the Institute of Medicine believes contribute to pervasive medical errors. 2. Recognize challenges to standardizing medical error prevention measures. 3. Indicate challenges and outcomes of integrated care systems. 4. Identify different types of medication errors. 5. Recognize risks and root causes of wrong site surgeries. 6. Identify causes and efforts to prevent incidents of retained foreign objects in surgeries.