Senin, 31 Agustus 2009
Medical Mistakes: What Can Go Wrong
Surgery on wrong patient or site—and other big blundersProcedures done on the wrong body part and to the wrong person are two of the National Quality Forum’s 28 “never events,” mistakes—including surgical materials left in a patient; artificial insemination with the wrong sperm or egg; and harm from malfunctioning equipment, as happened to Kristina Fox—that shouldn’t occur under any circumstances (see “Mistakes That Should Never Happen”). But they do. Out of 4,817 serious problems tracked over the past 12 years by the Joint...