Current Health Care Issues
Organizational Responsibility & Current Health Care Issues
HCS - 545
11/19/2012
Organizational Responsibility & Current Health Care Issues In today's modern world with plenty of technology, it is hard to believe that we cannot figure out how to reduce Medical errors. The issue of medical error is not new in health care organizations. It has been in spot light since 1990's, when government did research on sudden increase in number of death in the hospitals. According to Lester, H., & Tritter, J. (2001), "Medical error is an actual or potential serious lapse in the standard of care provided to a patient, or harm caused to a patient through the performance of a health service or health care professional." Medical errors are the mistakes made by health care providers with no intention to harm patients. There are few different ways medical error can occurs. Some of them medical errors are surgical error, wrong medicine given to patient, reaction to medication , failure to provide right care to patient on time, communication error between doctor and nurse, manufacture error, equipment failure, Diagnostic error, etc.
According to Mallory, Weller, Bloch, and Maze (2003), The Institute of Medicine found that medical errors kill almost 100,000 Americans per year. Also There are about 1 million injuries per year are caused by medical error. And because of all this error in medical field medical error death is in top 5 cause of death in the hospital. Also medical error is not only affecting the patients, it is also increasing the number of financial costs. In 2008, the annual cost of medical error that harm the patient was $17.1 billion( Van Den Bos, 2011) .
Medical errors affects the health care organization different ways. Medical errors could happen if hospital or clinic doesn't have enough medical staff to provide beast care to patient. There are so many facilities has shortage of nurses because of that nurses who work there have to work beyond
HCS - 545
11/19/2012
Organizational Responsibility & Current Health Care Issues In today's modern world with plenty of technology, it is hard to believe that we cannot figure out how to reduce Medical errors. The issue of medical error is not new in health care organizations. It has been in spot light since 1990's, when government did research on sudden increase in number of death in the hospitals. According to Lester, H., & Tritter, J. (2001), "Medical error is an actual or potential serious lapse in the standard of care provided to a patient, or harm caused to a patient through the performance of a health service or health care professional." Medical errors are the mistakes made by health care providers with no intention to harm patients. There are few different ways medical error can occurs. Some of them medical errors are surgical error, wrong medicine given to patient, reaction to medication , failure to provide right care to patient on time, communication error between doctor and nurse, manufacture error, equipment failure, Diagnostic error, etc.
According to Mallory, Weller, Bloch, and Maze (2003), The Institute of Medicine found that medical errors kill almost 100,000 Americans per year. Also There are about 1 million injuries per year are caused by medical error. And because of all this error in medical field medical error death is in top 5 cause of death in the hospital. Also medical error is not only affecting the patients, it is also increasing the number of financial costs. In 2008, the annual cost of medical error that harm the patient was $17.1 billion( Van Den Bos, 2011) .
Medical errors affects the health care organization different ways. Medical errors could happen if hospital or clinic doesn't have enough medical staff to provide beast care to patient. There are so many facilities has shortage of nurses because of that nurses who work there have to work beyond