Survey Finds 80 Pct of U.S. Doctors Witness Mistakes
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Eighty percent of U.S. doctors and half of nurses surveyed said they had seen colleagues make mistakes, but only 10 percent ever spoke up, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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Treatment errors often leave patients and families feeling guilty and afraid.
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Physicians frequently fail to  provide patients with all the information they should have when  they're prescribed new medication, investigators in California  report.
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Medication errors made in hospitals and clinics around the country harm at least 1.5 million Americans every year, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Description: The New England Journal of Medicine publishes a study that finds a connection between medical errors and sleep-deprived doctors.
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Five percent of breast cancer Web sites have mistakes, with those involving alternative or complementary medicine the most likely to be misleading, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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A new study presents stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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Despite the notion that technological innovation will prevent medication errors in hospitals, a new survey has found that nearly 20 percent of mistakes that were voluntarily reported involved computerization and automation.
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even deadly -- mistakes in hospitals, but an overwhelming majority say the solution lies in easy-to-read, published safety report cards
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Most doctors are afraid to take responsibility for medical errors but studies have shown that physiciansâ apologies may protect against litigation.
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The marathon hours worked by doctors-in-training in U.S. hospitals are leading to an alarming number of fatigue-related medical errors that often kill patients, researchers said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that
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Sept. 23, 2004 -- Between 42,000 and 79,000 avoidable deaths occur each year because many Americans aren&#39;t getting the best medical care available, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
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Most doctors are afraid to take responsibility for medical errors, but studies have shown that physiciansâ apologies may protect against litigation.