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Category Archives: Medical/Health Care Errors
Safety Grades Declined for 16 Michigan Hospitals. How Did Yours Score?
Michigan’s spring 2024 hospital safety report card is here, with fewer “A” and “B” grades than the fall…
Errors with high-risk medications all too common
Preventable medication errors affect some 7 million people in Michigan and across the U.S. every year. Worldwide, between…
3 Out Of 20 Gastrointestinal Scopes Improperly Cleaned, Contaminated With ‘Bio Dirt’
It might be time to start treating endoscopes like tattoo needles — making sure only unused ones go…
Surgical Errors Climb, Bed Sores Decline In State’s Hospitals
Reports of wrong-site surgeries increased 62 percent in the past year in Connecticut hospitals, while the number of…
Reckless doctors go unchecked
A database that could identify prolific prescribers and prevent overdose deaths is readily available, but California officials say they…
Copying common in electronic medical records
Most doctors copy and paste old, potentially out-of-date information into patients’ electronic records, according to a new study…
Fire Risk Forces Oxygen Tank Recall
The manufacturer of a portable oxygen cylinder unit has recalled the product after discovering that fires could occur…
“Doc Infects Patients with Hep B in Surgery”
According to a report by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System, a surgeon with hepatitis B…
Reducing harm through medication reconciliation
Dr. Schnipper, director of clinical research for the hospitalist service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is…
Study finds hospital bed alarms don’t deliver results
Better staff training and family reminders to better monitor patients at risk of falling is a better method,…
Some cancer docs say their income tied to treatments
A survey of cancer doctors finds that some believe they get paid more when they administer their patients’…
Patients transferred to the intensive care unit within 24 hours of admission to a hospital room have high risk of dying
Most critically ill medical patients who arrive at the emergency department (ED) are directly admitted to the intensive…
One-third of patients with hospital-acquired infections are readmitted within 1 year
Hospital readmissions can be costly. In one year alone, 20 percent of Medicare patients readmitted within 30 days…
Scripts Being Refilled After Docs Say Stop
Physicians’ orders to cancel standing prescriptions sometimes don’t get through to pharmacists, resulting in refills on prescriptions that…
Abused Elderly Likely to Have Brain, Head and Neck Injuries
Only 2 percent of abuse cases are reported, study says TUESDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthDay News) — Elderly people…
Meningitis Map
CASES WITH FUNGAL INFECTIONS LINKED TO STEROID INJECTIONS
Meningitis: Death Toll at 28
October 30, 2012 Three more people — two in Michigan and one in Tennessee — have died of…
Why Patients Don’t Report Medical Errors
Written by Marshall Allen ProPublica, Sept. 25, 2012, 11:34 a.m. I was recently browsing through the nearly 200…
New System for Patients to Report Medical Mistakes
Hospitals say they are receptive to the idea, despite concerns about malpractice liability and possible financial penalties for…
How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us
The world of American medicine is far deadlier: Medical mistakes kill enough people each week to fill four…
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