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Errors in emergency medicine and mainly diagnostic errors and/or missed diagnoses reflect significantly on the quality of services provided in an ED and jeopardize patients’ care and safety. Error prevalence, root systemic, and human factors affecting its occurrence and increase must be systematically monitored and measured so as to reduce their impact to the minimum. In order to mitigate the implications of the errors occurring in the EDs, cognitive, behavioral, and organizational issues must be well understood and taken into consideration by all practitioners in an emergency room so as to put in effect preventive and reparative measures in order to eliminate these types of errors. The aim of this chapter is to map and conceptualize this error framework and recommend strategies for reducing them, especially in the emergency department.
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Charalambous, G. (2021). Errors of Disaster Health Management: Health Care System Errors, Prehospital and Hospital Emergency Medical Service. In: Pikoulis, E., Doucet, J. (eds) Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Disaster Management. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34116-9_44
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