Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Worker fatigue cause of health care mistakes, study finds. #Nurseup #HealthcareHarm #Healthcare

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Worker fatigue cause of health care mistakes, study finds:"Health care worker fatigue contributed to more than 1,600 incidents reported...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

amednews: Revealing their medical errors: Why three doctors went public :: Aug. 15, 2011 ... American Medical News

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In September 2010, Kimberly Hiatt made a medical error. The critical care nurse at Seattle Children's Hospital miscalculated and gave a...
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 ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Not Running a Hospital: Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There a...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Partnership for Patients - Win, Win, Win for American Healthcare

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It's called the Partnership for Patients .  (I like it already - it's focused on patients.)  It's a program being developed by...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Is the US healthcare system too litigious or too careless? | boxcuttersinc

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In a recent study published in  Health Affairs , researchers at the University of Utah and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement found ...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Errors still common in U.S. hospitals | Reuters

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About one in three people in the United States will encounter some kind of mistake during a hospital stay, U.S. researchers said Thursday. ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Why Not The Best (Hospital Benchmark Data)

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Comparative Health Care Performance Data   See how well U.S. hospitals perform on measures of evidence-ba...

How safe is your hospital? - chicagotribune.com

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Just before it was disclosed that a medical error at the University of Chicago led to the death of James Tyree, a well-known financier and...

The Epidemic of Preventable Medical Harm, HealthcarePSI.org

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The Centers for Disease Control reports that 1.7 million people who enter the hospital this year - for any reason - will contract a Hospita...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Nursing Malpractice Case Studies By Date, NursingCaseStudy.com

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ShareThis Buzz up! 9 votes Editors Note: The urls to these cases ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Admitting harm protects patients - Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

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As Nevada legislators debate this week whether to require hospitals to publicly report when they harm patients , they could learn a lot fro...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Texas Senate panel advances bill to protect nurses | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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A Texas Senate committee approved legislation Tuesday aimed at strengthening protection for nurses who report abuse by doctors. The bill...

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...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

HHS Releases National Plan to Improve Health Literacy | HHS.gov

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Today, the United States Department of Health and Human Services released The National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy aimed at mak...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Nearly 60% of paid home caregivers make medication errors, study finds - McKnight's Long Term Care News

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One-third of paid caregivers who work for clients who live in their own homes had difficulty reading and understanding health-related infor...