When medical errors are made.

Medical error has been found to be one of the leading cause of death and injury, most people die in hospitals each year as a result of medical error. Medical errors are classified as human errors in health care, it occurs when a health care provider or specialist chooses the wrong approach to treating its patient or a situation whereby the care provider did not carry out the appropriate method the way it ought to. These two criteria are best defines medical errors, meanwhile when such a circumstance occur the patient bears the brunt, they are the ones that are open to the outcome of the event that has occurred when a medical error occur. Sometimes it is caused as a result of communication error, when one does not understand what is being said, then based the whole session on assumption, this is why in health care it is not right to base treatments on assumption, this idea is not legit. Many of medical errors are products of negligence which is common in the midst of inexperience health professionals. In some cases some patients get the wrong types of drugs because the physician has not written the prescription legibly. Sometimes medical error might pop up due to the patient disposition too. To ensure medical error is brought down to the lowest ebb proper documentation is needed; also health records should be properly tagged so that it will not be mixed up. This will help to fortify the health records security and usage.