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Medication errors and adverse clinical incident reporting system
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S.HEPSIBAH SHARMIL, RAVISHANKAR SRINIVASAN, DEBORAH LEWINGTON, A.K. SHARMA, D BABIN DHAS
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It is not uncommon forhospitals and other healthcare services to encounter medication error and existence of incident reporting will enhancethe attorney of hospitals to be rightly prepared for possible litigation.Notall incidencesoccurring at the hospitals are liable for law suit but when a legal litigation do occur information recorded in the incident report will have an huge impact. Though the health care people are likely to provide factual details on the patients’health records and related aspects in the case notes. Incident report do enhance qualityservice and act as an evidence to bring up trustworthy informationthereby avoiding medical negligence and malpractice. The point to note is incident report wouldnot contain the opinion of the person documenting but will certainly indicate the actual account of the witness as it is, aswhat was seen? This true-life datawill be an effective measure to refurbish better standards of care that’s appropriate.
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Incident report, medication error,medical law, health law, hospital
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.125
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