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Medication errors can occur due to both human error and system errors healthcare

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The most important priority of the healthcare system is to ensure patient safety. Errors regarding drug safety comprise 18-22% of all medical errors. Medication errors can occur due to both human error and system errors. As Acıbadem Healthcare Group, we aim to draw attention and raise awareness to the errors of medicine and way to prevent it.

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You can take steps to reduce the chance of a medical error happening to you or a loved one. The most important thing that you can do is to become an active member of your or your family’s health care team. This means asking questions of your doctor, nurse or pharmacist and speaking up if you have concerns. Also shown at: healthcare411.ahrq.gov

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Health care in danger: The human cost

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Health care in danger: The human cost

The law says hospitals, ambulances and health-care workers must be protected and should never be targeted as they carry out their regular duties. This is often far from the reality. Worldwide, the lack of safe access to health care is causing untold suffering to millions of people.

Through the voices of doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and patients, this film shows the human cost of violence against health-care workers and facilities. It also highlights how medical, military and humanitarian organisations are coming together to find new approaches and new solutions.

“One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself.” Marco Baldan, War Surgeon, ICRC