... errors linked to undocumented diagnoses, as well as being time-consuming and expensive. Other manifestations of medication error go unrecognized, write the authors, because symptoms are often complex, ...
... in most health care settings. Considerable efforts have been made in recent years to reduce medical errors, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has established a number of "patient ...
... of internal medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
"Discussing medical errors can be a form of professional learning for doctors. Mistakes should be considered shared ...
... and a family is steeped in trust, a commodity that can be significantly diminished by the occurrence of a medical error," the authors write. "Nevertheless, parents have clearly articulated a desire to ...
... to national attention in 2005 with a JAMA article on medication errors associated with computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems. More recently, his work on errors in bar-coded ...
... , the limited evidence available to guide clinicians in selecting strategies to prevent and disclose medication errors in critically ill patients is surprising," write Dr. Stelfox and coauthors from ...
... errors and informing patients, write Toronto-based researchers in a review http://www.cmaj ... affected by them.
"The disclosure of a large-scale medical error is not a single event, but rather an ongoing ...
... is common and can lead to serious medical errors in post-hospitalization medical treatment. A new study by ... you call a 'fumbled handoff' - and it leads to medical errors." said Martin Were, M.D., MS., ...
When reporting medical errors, patients' perceptions of their physicians' disclosure may be key to gaining their trust, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...
... College of Surgeons challenges the widely held belief that more medical errors occur in teaching hospitals during the month of July due to the influx of new graduates from medical ...
... College of Surgeons challenges the widely held belief that more medical errors occur in teaching hospitals during the month of July due to the influx of new graduates from medical ...
New research challenges the widely held belief that more medical errors occur in teaching hospitals during the month of July due to the influx of new graduates from medical and ...
NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Some U.S. hospitals are admitting medical errors in an effort to avert costly malpractice litigation, healthcare industry observers say.
... and the ingenuity of nurses to cope with these shortcomings have the unintended consequences of creating other medication errors. These findings appear in the July/August issue of the Journal of the ...
Overdoses and other medical mistakes can put young patients at risk.
