Improved Documentation and Record Management: A Necessity to Prevent Medical Errors in Health Care System

International Journal of Medical Science

© 2015 by SSRG - IJMS Journal

Volume 2 Issue 11

Year of Publication : 2015

Authors : Md Shahedul Alam Chowdhury, RN, Laila Habib

10.14445/23939117/IJMS-V2I11P101

How to Cite?

Md Shahedul Alam Chowdhury, RN, Laila Habib, "Improved Documentation and Record Management: A Necessity to Prevent Medical Errors in Health Care System," SSRG International Journal of Medical Science, vol. 2,  no. 11, pp. 1-3, 2015. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23939117/IJMS-V2I11P101

Abstract:

In modern health care system medical error is very important problem to consider. In United States preventable medical errors are considered to be third leading causes of death. Medical errors like injuries, wrong site surgeries, medication mishaps, misidentification of patients, reporting errors, poor diagnosis of disease and so on happen in health care system in different situation in different environment. Some of the questions to address in order to find solution are what medical errors are, what occur most often and what could be the way to prevent the errors from happening. Usually, the errors could result from human health care provider or health care system. Some errors could result from both the reasons. The study argues that, practicing appropriate documentation and record management in health care system is a must to identify the causes of the medical errors and to find ways to prevent them from happening.

Keywords:

Administration, Documentations, Health care, Human Resources, Medical Error, Record Management.

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