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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Hospitals will be forced to admit medical errors, says government | Politics | The Guardian

The Department of Health has published its full response to last week's NHS Future Forum report, accepting many of the forum's recommendations and introducing a drive for transparency that will require hospitals to admit errors.
A written ministerial statement said hospitals would have a new "duty of candour", requiring them to tell patients when they had made mistakes – a key demand from the "listening exercise".
Providers of NHS services would have the duty written into their contracts in a drive to increase transparency.
The government has moved to eliminate the chances for "cherry-picking", whereby private providers seek to take on the most profitable operations. Royal colleges – professional bodies for health professionals – would be enlisted to develop safeguards to eliminate this.

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Walter Reed to close after more than a century - USATODAY.com

Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, is closing its doors after more than a century.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the military's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care for more than a century, is closing its doors.

Hundreds of thousands of the nation's war wounded from World War I to today have received treatment at Walter Reed, including 18,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Dwight Eisenhower died there. So did Gens. John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur.

It's where countless celebrities, from Bob Hope to quarterback Tom Brady, have stopped to show their respect to the wounded. Through the use of medical diplomacy, the center also has tended to foreign leaders.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

S.C. Court Upholds $250K Retained Sponge Verdict: #nursing Breaking News in #Surgery > July, 2011 >

A South Carolina hospital has lost its bid to overturn a $250,000 malpractice verdict awarded to a patient who suffered pain, discomfort and an embarrassing odor from a sponge left inside her vagina after hysterectomy surgery.
AnMed Health had admitted liability in the case of Elise Burke, 73, who underwent an abdominal hysterectomy at the hospital on March 22, 2005. According to court documents, a pre-operative nurse mistakenly left a cleansing sponge in Ms. Burke's vagina, which went undetected during the surgery.
After the procedure, Ms. Burke felt increasing pain, discolored vaginal discharge and an offensive odor that she and her family argued had caused her emotional distress. Over a 2-month period, she raised these concerns with her doctor and sought medical assistance 6 times, according to court documents and testimony.

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The Barbara Bates Center for The Study of the History of Nursing is the preeminent center for scholarship in nursing history. The mission of the Bates Center is to ensure the generation of historical knowledge, scholarship, and research on healthcare and nursing history in the U.S. and across the globe.

Our priority is to increase our understanding of the importance of a historical standpoint to the development of effective health policy and patient care strategies. The faculty, fellows, and visting scholars create scholarly papers and books that tie nursing’s history directly to current health topics. Our work in the history of nursing provides evidence necessary for a better understanding of the nation’s health care problems and the strategies required for resolving current critical issues.

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Why you should never go to the hospital in July – The Chart - CNN.com Blogs

Do not get sick in July. Why? You might die.

A recent study published by the Journal of General Internal Medicine reported a 10 percent spike in teaching hospital deaths during the month of July due to medical errors. We call this spike “The July Effect” and we attribute it to the influx of new interns and residents.

Typically, medical students graduate in June and begin their first year of residency training — internship — in July. This group of eager new interns invades the hospital to learn, care for patients, and make medical decisions. One problem. They don’t know what they’re doing.

Like most interns, I arrived with four years of medical school under my belt, an M.D. after my name, and virtually no practical knowledge of medicine. Although I wore the long white coat of a doctor, I kept my pockets packed with condensed medical manuals that we called our “peripheral brains” to make up for the lack of knowledge held in my actual brain. Thank God for these manuals. Otherwise I would have been part of “The July Effect.”

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Medication Errors, FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration

FDA receives medication error reports⁴ on marketed human drugs (including prescription drugs, generic drugs, and over-the-counter drugs) and nonvaccine biological products and devices. The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention⁵ defines a medication error as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing; order communication; product labeling, packaging, and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use."
The American Hospital Association⁶ lists the following as some common types of medication errors:
incomplete patient information (not knowing about patients' allergies, other medicines they are taking, previous diagnoses, and lab results, for example);
unavailable drug information (such as lack of up-to-date warnings);

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Friday, July 8, 2011

When Nurse Make Mistakes (Theresa Brown, RN) - NYTimes.com

By THERESA BROWN, R.N.
This year, a Seattle nurse named Kim Hiatt committed suicide. Ms. Hiatt’s death came nearly seven months after she had given an unintended overdose to an infant heart patient, a medical error that was said to have contributed to the child’s death days later.
Ms. Hiatt had been a nurse for 27 years and had often cared for the 8-month-old girl during the child’s stay in the pediatric intensive care unit of her hospital. She had probably drawn up the right dose of the drug hundreds of times in her career. But once, she made a life-changing error. A baby died, and she was suspended, then fired from a profession she loved. And now she’s dead.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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