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Medical Error: Is the Solution Medical or Cognitive?

Author(s) -

Jiaming Zhang

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m1232

Subject(s) - cognition , medical research , psychological intervention , foundation (evidence) , medical practice , cognitive impairment , computer science , psychology , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , pathology , archaeology , history

Is the solution for medical errors medical or cognitive? In this AMIA2001 panel on medical error, we argued that medical error is primarily an issue for cognitive science and engineering, not for medicine, although the knowledge of the practice of medicine is essential for the research and prevention of medical errors. The three panelists presented studies that demonstrate that cognitive research is the foundation for theories of medical errors and interventions of error reductions.

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