A method of handing off information about pediatric patients when residents change shifts reduced preventable adverse events by 30 percent, a new study has found.
Dec 8, 2014
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An international team of scientists which includes researchers from the U. of Granada has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to establish in an objective way the level of fatigue in physicians after long ...
Nov 26, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Changing how doctors communicate during shift changes in hospitals reduced the risk of adverse events in patients by 30 percent, a new study found.
Nov 6, 2014
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Improvements in verbal and written communication between health care providers during patient handoffs can reduce injuries due to medical errors by 30 percent, according to a multicenter study led by researchers from Boston ...
Nov 5, 2014
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According to Nationwide Children's Hospital researchers, 63,000 children under the age of six experienced out-of-hospital medication errors annually between 2002 and 2012. One child is affected every eight minutes, usually ...
Oct 20, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Reform of malpractice laws as well as inclusion of patients in medical decision making may help reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment, according to an article published online Oct. 14 in The BMJ.
Oct 16, 2014
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Amidst rising concerns about medical errors, residents' hours were capped at 80 per week in 2003 with shift lengths not to exceed 30 consecutive hours. To assess whether shortened residency training resulted in lower-quality ...
Oct 7, 2014
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Syria's opposition said Thursday that 16 children who died during a measles vaccination campaign in the mostly rebel-held province of Idlib had been given an anaesthesia additive by mistake.
Sep 18, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—University of Pennsylvania researchers have made another advance in understanding how the brain detects errors caused by unexpected sensory events. This type of error detection is what allows the brain ...
Sep 10, 2014
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MIT alumni entrepreneurs Gauti Reynisson MBA '10 and Ívar Helgason HS '08 spent the early 2000s working for companies that implemented medication-safety technologies—such as electronic-prescription and pill-barcoding systems—at ...
Aug 28, 2014
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