title: Seven-Step Pathway for Preventing Errors in Healthcare.
abstract: The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report To Err Is Human shed light on the grave consequences of medical errors and led to a substantial increase in awareness in the federal government and private sector regarding medical errors. In addition, the literature contains myriad solutions, strategies, and recommendations for dealing with this problem; however, because of their complexity and inflexibility, most cannot be implemented and are inapplicable on an individual level. This essay proposes a seven-step pathway for preventing errors-a flexible, feasible, and organized method that can be used by healthcare administrators and providers.
authors.affiliation: Rebin Zikhani, MD, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Rebin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zikhani
mesh_terms: D058016:Health Facility Administration; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States