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Prevention of Medical Errors in Nursing Practice
STATEMENT OF NEED
Medical errors are among the most common health-threatening mistakes that affect patient care, accounting for as many as 250,000 deaths per year in the United States (Makary & Daniel, 2016). Medical errors are considered a global problem; they affect as many as 20% of patients in primary and outpatient care and complicate a patient’s primary condition for which they needed medical attention (WHO, 2019). These errors can lead to adverse outcomes, such as increased mor... |