Health
Medical error third leading cause of death in US: study
Medical error is the third largest cause of death in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ.
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Reducing medication errors with scanning system that ensures patients get the right pills
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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Doctor burnout costs health care system $4.6 billion a year
Burnout among doctors is costing the U.S. health-care system an estimated $4.6 billion a year in billings because of reduced hours, physician turnover, and expenses associated with finding and hiring replacements, according ...
Jul 15, 2019
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When doctors get it wrong: Misdiagnoses are getting a closer look
Doctors and safety advocates have targeted many causes of patient harm - such as bungled prescriptions, excessive imaging scans and wrong-site surgeries - but have given little attention to an equally common cause: making ...
Sep 4, 2015
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Surgery
New study finds that surgeons under stress make more mistakes in the operating room
A new study reveals that during stressful moments in the operating room, surgeons make up to 66 percent more mistakes on patients. Using a technology that captured the electrical activity of a surgeon's heart, researchers ...
Dec 17, 2018
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Study finds medication errors, adverse drug events in one out of two surgeries studied
The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period - immediately before, during and right after a surgical procedure - has found that some sort of mistake ...
Oct 26, 2015
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Anesthesia patient safety foundation calls on health care systems to make systemic changes to stop medical errors
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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Fatigue linked to safety problems among EMS workers, study finds
Fatigue and poor sleep quality, which affect many emergency medical services (EMS) workers, are linked to higher reported rates of injuries, medical errors and safety-compromising behaviors, according to a study by University ...
Nov 17, 2011
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Neuroscience
How doctors make diagnoses
Doctors use similar brain mechanisms to make diagnoses and to name objects, according to a study published in the Dec. 14 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE and led by Marcio Melo of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Dec 14, 2011
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Does sleep deprivation promote medical malpractice lawsuits?
Can sleep loss in hospital patients lead to an uptick in medical malpractice lawsuits? A new study from researchers at Rice University and Baylor University suggests that is indeed the case.
Mar 27, 2019
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