An Automated System For Reducing Preventable Medical Errors

CHAPTER ONEINTRODUC11ON1.0 BackgroundWikipedia defines a Medical error as “The failure of a planned action to be completed as Intended (error of execution) or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim (error of Planning).” In practice the term “medical errors” is often preceded by the modifier “preventable.” Medical world accepts that there are some medical errors for which preventability is rarely questioned .The list includes medical errors such as wrong site surgery, administering the wrong medication when the correct one was ordered, or transplanting organs of the wrong…