The UK National Health Service is being brought to its knees by a perfect storm of difficulties: poor flow through hospitals resulting in crowded emergency departments and long ambulance waits, and increases in respiratory ...
Jan 11, 2023
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A simple change in the use of syringe trays could help reduce errors in complex clinical environments. This is the finding of research carried out by a team at the University of Derby.
Jan 11, 2023
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Diagnostic accuracy is high in the emergency department, with about 5.7 percent of patients misdiagnosed, according to a report published Dec. 15 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Dec 29, 2022
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Drifting off or losing concentration is a major cause of cycling accidents, and because they're not as good as seeing hazards as adults, children are more often seriously hurt.
Dec 8, 2022
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Cancer cells acquire genetic anomalies that allow them to grow and proliferate unchecked. Researchers have now found another difference between cancer cells and normal cells: the X chromosome, typically only inactivated in ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Have you visited Yew Nork? Does your stummy ache? What dog of bag food will we get?
Oct 25, 2022
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New research published today in The Lancet Global Health reveals that less than half of people over 50 worldwide have received spectacles or contact lenses needed to correct refractive error, the world's most common visual ...
Oct 11, 2022
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More than 80% of UK medical certificates recording stillbirths contain errors, research reveals.
Jun 21, 2022
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Australian doctors are more likely to be sued for medical negligence if they are unhappy, overworked, working in rural areas, or if they have suffered a recent injury or illness according to new research from the University ...
Jun 2, 2022
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The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), a related organization of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), has released a statement on the criminalization of medical errors with a call to action to all health ...
May 26, 2022
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