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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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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Small additions can lead to big changes.
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WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. hospitals that switched from using doctors&#39; handwritten prescriptions to computerized drug ordering systems had a 66 percent drop in medication errors, say the authors of a review that looked at the results of 12 studies.
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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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Computer systems designed to prevent medication errors in hospitals can actually contribute to mistakes, according to a new report. -The Washington Post
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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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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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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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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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Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.
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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 that works to improve
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A US national database on children&#39;s hospitals can help reduce the length, cost and frequency of stays, says a University of Michigan study in the October issue of Pediatrics.
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Death rates among elderly U.S. patients have shown little change since the long hours worked by doctors in training were cut in 2003 under a major effort to reduce hospital errors, a study said on Tuesday.
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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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MONDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDayNews) -- A U.S. national database on children's hospitals can help reduce the length, cost and frequency of stays, says a University of Michigan study in the October issue of Pediatrics.
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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