CE Directed Reading Reducing Errors in Radiology (original) (raw)

After completing this article, the reader should be able to:  Define terms such as medical error, adverse event, and sentinel event in medical care.  Explain how patient transfers provide opportunities for preventing errors.  Describe how good communication practices can help avert medical errors.  Discuss how specific approaches to medical imaging can help avoid errors in assessing and diagnosing patients in the emergency department and patients with multiple trauma. Medical errors, even those that are relatively minor, can have serious consequences, such as misdiagnosis and longer and costlier hospital stays. Reducing errors requires all members of the health care clinical and administrative team to commit to the effort, and effective risk management addresses system-wide causes of errors. Errors often result from poor communication, inadequate training, chronic fatigue, and entrenched workplace hierarchies. Error reduction strategies support high-quality patient care, even in the most stressful and complex situations.

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