Showing posts with label Adverse Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adverse Events. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Side Effects? These #Drugs Have a Few - NYTimes.com

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Dr. Jon Duke of Indiana University was trying to figure out why his patient’s blood platelets were abnormal. Could it be a side effect of o...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

amednews: 1 in 3 patients harmed during hospital stay :: April 18, 2011 ... American Medical News

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By Kevin B. O'Reilly , amednews staff. Posted April 18, 2011. One-third of hospital patients experience adverse events and ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Drug Errors on the Rise - NYTimes.com

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The number of people treated in hospitals in the United States for problems related to medication errors has surged more than 50 percent in...

When to sue your doctor or hospital Should you? | Eye Opener: The Nash & Associates Blog | %post_tags%

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Recently, a CNN article titled “ Harmed in the Hospital? Should You Sue ?” described the story of a two-year-old baby with a septic infecti...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

AIM: Adverse event reporting is on the rise

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Although the FDA 's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) database has been in existence since 1969, more than half of the incidents ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Patient Education to Prevent Falls Among Older Hospital Inpatients: A Randomized Controlled Trial, March 28, 2011, Haines et al. 171 (6): 516

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Arch Intern Med.  2011;171(6):516-524. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2010.444 Background  Falls are a common adverse event during hospit...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

e-Autopsy: Kaiser Hospitals Dig In to Data to Assess Mortality

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You've heard the macabre joke that hospitals and doctors "bury their mistakes." Well, here's an interesting twist: At Kai...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Rare Fractures Linked To Drugs For Weak Bones : NPR

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The study found 716 atypical fractures among more than 200,000 Ontario women over 68. The researchers calculate the ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Impact of a statewide intensive care unit quality improvement initiative on hospital mortality and length of stay: retrospective comparative analysis -- Lipitz-Snyderman et al. 342 -- bmj.com

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The US Institute of Medicine highlighted the serious problem of patient safety and importance of evidence based quality improvement initia...