The City University of New York

Abstract

Brief Abstract: The medical sector is one which employs and depends on “multidisciplinary” service sectors. Hence errors can occur across a number of disciplines which contribute to the medical sector. In earlier work funded by CUNY 32-34 we classified all of the medical errors discovered in our literature study into categories according to the type of error which was deemed to have been involved (Kopec, Kabir, Reinharth, et. al, 2003). Some of those categories, in addition to being classified by cause, involve classification by whether or not "a human role” was responsible for that error. A subsidiary result of our earlier work is that we have developed a database of over 100 papers in the area of medical errors and this can now serve as a repository for other researchers interested in the field.