Shorter Intern Shifts Mean Fewer Medical Errors
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Harvard University&#39;s teaching hospital is introducing what would seem to be a common-sense move but is really a revolution in medical education: a 16-hour limit on the
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When work deadlines loom or the pressure of office life is turned up a notch itâs not uncommon for many of us to sit at our desks and stare at our computer screens for hours at a time without a break.
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It seems that more and more medical students and young doctors show up for clinical work in less-than-professional attire.
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If only patients knew more about hospitals&#39; past mistakes, Jacqueline Imbertson thinks fewer of them would die. But if hospitals knew their private safety worries could become
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Only two months ago, the Emergency Department at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital was piled high with patient charts: files clogged with physicians' notes and nurses' follow-throughs, with test orders and lab results and a plethora of other printouts and paperwork. As in most EDs, keeping track of everyt...
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TUESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Using bar coding in the hospital pharmacy may help prevent dangerous prescription errors, according to a new study.
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A wireless system installed in Sydney Children's Hospital saves time and money and improvs the quality of care, doctors agree.
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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
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Abandoning billable hours may help slow the treadmill.
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Giving care home staff flu jabs can cut the number of illnesses and deaths among resident.
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One dose of an antibiotic just before surgery is as good as several spread over 24 hours to fight infections at the operation site, saving money and easing fears about bacterial resistance, a study said on Monday.
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Early last Saturday, nurses at an Indianapolis hospital went to the drug cabinet in the newborn intensive care unit to get blood-thinner for several premature babies.
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MONDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Simple, personalized outreach in doctors&#39; offices can improve colorectal cancer screening rates, a new study finds.
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A substantial number of "adverse events" -- many of which could have been prevented -- affect children in hospitals each year, according to a new study.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Medical residents who are depressed are about six times more likely to make medication errors than those who aren't depressed, says a study that looked a 123 pediatric residents at three children's hospitals in the United States.
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This small medical laboratory has a real server room, complete with a UPS that has more than seven hours of runtime. Or at least that's what the departing sysadmin tells his replacement.
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WASHINGTON The World Health Organization says one in ten hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.