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HEALTHCARE ERROR PREVENTION Healthcare Error Prevention Jessica Cook Colorado State University Global HCM 520: Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare Professor Earl Greenia October 22, 2023 1

HEALTHCARE ERROR PREVENTION 2 To: Director of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Subject: Healthcare Error Prevention It is a goal of the healthcare organization to provide the best care and work to reduce medical errors. Though, as you may have heard medical errors are still appearing and in different forms. As many as one in every ten patients will be affected by a healthcare error (WHO, 2023). Three events will be analyzed to understand the impacts caused to both internal and external stakeholders. Then recommendations can be made to prevent the errors from occurring in the future. One of the first healthcare errors that come across deals with surgical errors. Millions of surgical procedures are conducted each year and from that number just about 4,000 of the surgical procedures will experiences some form of surgical error (Rodziewicz et al., 2023). Many of the errors affecting patients as procedures are done on incorrect body parts, or robotic surgery may lead to bleeding caused from injury in the surrounding areas (Rodziewicz et al., 2023). The effects are shown to the staff and organization as well, leading to the question of training. The surgeons may not be receiving the appropriate training, gaps in communication between surgery staff, and potential of human errors. A second medical error that is common is with diagnostic errors, which occur more in primary care practices (Rodziewicz et al., 2023). Primarily because the clinics do not have ease of access to fellow specialists, as within the hospital system. Follow-ups are missed, tests are not performed, and incorrect diagnoses are made. Patients are at risk, as treatment can be delayed due to diagnostic errors. Causing increased strain on the staff and increasing the number of patients requiring readmission (Rodziewicz et al., 2023). Finally, one more cause of error that is being experienced is medication errors. This is a very common area where errors are made but can also be preventable. Some of the medication errors that are discovered involve dispensing of the incorrect medication, incorrect storage, not completing double- checks, and unintentional overdose in younger patients (Rodziewicz et al., 2023). Causing little to no

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