Complicated: medical missteps are not inevitable.

Ilana R. Yurkiewicz

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Complicated: medical missteps are not inevitable.

July 18, 2018

Yurkiewicz IR. Health Aff (Millwood). 2018;37(7):1178-1181.

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This commentary provides a clinician's account of near misses, medication errors, and care omissions that resulted in a family member's unnecessarily prolonged ventilation. The author argues for system approaches to address normalized complacency regarding complications focused on changing culture, improving care continuity, and use of health information technology.

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