Iom Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Iom and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| Medical Errors in the United States Most medical interventions produce positive outcomes. Everyone expects to give and receive effective medical care. These expectations are routinely met by the healthcare community.
However, a 2000 publication from the Institute of Medicine, the IOM, To err is human: Building a safer health system, reports that medical errors cause as many as 98,000 deaths every year in the United States. | View Page |
| American Society for Clinical Laboratory ScienceThe American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, ASCLS, joins the leadership effort to prevent medical errors and increase patient safety. | View Page |
| Errors as a Cause Death CDC statistics for the United States in 2001 show that only five other causes led to more deaths than medical errors:Heart disease-700,000Cancer-554,000Stroke-164,000Chronic lower respiratory disease-123,000Accidents-102,000 The IOM report on medical errors concurs and comments that even with conservative estimates, medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. | View Page |
| Human Nature and Error Prevention The 2000 IOM report states, "It may be part of human nature to err, but it is also part of human nature to create solutions, find better alternatives, and meet the challenges ahead."
Everyone should use these positive aspects of human nature to prevent medical errors.
Laboratory professionals can do their part by understanding the nature and causes of medical errors and ways to prevent them. They can also benefit by guidance from many clinical, regulatory, and Internet resources that aim to prevent medical errors.
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| Resources for Medical Error Prevention More information about laboratory-related medical errors and ways to prevent them can be found at the following Websites:
JCAHO at http://www.jointcommission.org
ASCP at http://www.ascp.org
ASCLS at http://www.ascls.org
IOM at http://www.iom.edu
Westgard.com at http://www.westgard.com
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