Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Case Reports
Clinical errors in emergency medicine: experience at the emergency department of an Italian teaching hospital.
The level of commitment in the analysis of clinical errors made in the emergency department (ED) is currently focused on organization and processes rather than on individual action. Four major cases of clinical errors made in the ED of a teaching hospital were investigated. ⋯ The authors have initiated a systematic analysis of errors made during the diagnostic workup in their ED, and the rate of clinically significant errors is tracked. A file is being created with the purpose to use it for teaching and orientation of all new staff.