They also examined the severity and most common types of preventable patient harm ... care settings” and “priority areas are the mitigation of major sources of preventable patient harm (such as drug ...

IT system failures have been linked to the deaths of three patients and more than 100 instances of serious harm at NHS hospital trusts in England, BBC News has found. A Freedom of Information ...

“Patients and their families are regarded as a common source of mistreatment in learning ... not involving direct verbal abuse or physical harm, this represents an abuse of power wherein ...

or equipment that are often hidden until they contribute to the occurrence of errors or allow errors to go unrecognized until they harm patients. Whereas an active failure (human error), such as ...