Talk:Medical error

Good start, I would like to see a broader coverage of iatrogenic injuries, rather than the narrow focus the article has begun with (sort of restricted to IHI) , and, if you are agreeable, would like to help expand it. Of course, everything in it should stay- it's just that there's more to cover. :-) Nancy Sculerati MD 16:47, 9 February 2007 (CST)

Yes, please help expand it. I was just working from that good article I found. Lots of other useful things to be said. Fred Bauder 20:17, 9 February 2007 (CST)

It should be Medical errors, instead of the singular (that's how it's categorized in the medical literature), can you change it? I'm just learning. Nancy Sculerati MD 19:21, 9 February 2007 (CST)

The Wikipedia convention is to avoid the plural, not sure what the policy is here. To change the name just "move" it. Fred Bauder 20:17, 9 February 2007 (CST)

I also wondered if you can change articles. Do you "move" them? how does that work? Create medical articles, move the information, then make medical article a redirect? How do you make a redirect by the way? and then, after you make a redirect, how do you access the page if you need to edit the redirect to become a list of options to chose from? -Tom Kelly (Talk) 19:36, 9 February 2007 (CST)

When you move the page, the original page becomes a redirect. Coding for a redirect looks like this: #REDIRECT [[New name of page]]. After you make a redirect, going to the old page forwards you to the new page which contains a link at the top to the old page, allowing you to access the old page for editing. You can then made it into a disambiguation page with multiple links, if you wish. Fred Bauder 20:17, 9 February 2007 (CST)

It's not a Citizendium convention- it's the National Library of Medicine- Medline. Medical Errors' Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) Nancy Sculerati MD 21:19, 9 February 2007 (CST)

Redirected Medical error -> Medical errors, copied discussion

I made the move for the article, but had to do the talk page manually. Am I missing something? Nancy Sculerati MD 21:52, 9 February 2007 (CST)

I think the talk page should automatically move when you move the article. Fred Bauder 23:12, 9 February 2007 (CST)

At Talk:Medical error you had put nowiki tags before and after the redirect code which tells the code to not work. Fred Bauder 23:16, 9 February 2007 (CST)

Malpractive

"In theory, if all caregivers performed within the bounds of professional XXX, the incidence of medical malpractice could be reduced to zero." The standard measure is "accepted standards of practice in the medical community." This standard of negligence can limit the scope of malpractice to instances of failing to do what is usually done. Framing the issue in terms of error expands the scope of the field to examination of what might be done to improve on what is usually done. Fred Bauder 09:33, 10 February 2007 (CST)