Medications
Q&A: Every eight minutes, a child experiences a home medication error. Here's how to prevent it
Every eight minutes, a child experiences a medication error at home. These mistakes can be life-threatening.
Oct 9, 2023
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News tagged with medical errors
Medications
Study shows nearly 300% increase in ADHD medication errors
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most common pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders. In 2019, nearly 10% of United States (U.S.) children had a diagnosis of ADHD. Approximately 3.3 million children, ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Health informatics
When electronic health records are hard to use, patient safety may be at risk: Study
New research suggests that hospital electronic health records (EHRs) that are difficult to use are also less likely to catch medical errors that could harm patients.
Sep 11, 2023
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Health informatics
New guidance on safe injection practice in hospitals emphasizes the importance of prefilled and labeled syringes
New guidance published in Anesthesia provides clear advice to reduce avoidable errors on all steps of the pathway involving injectable medications used routinely in anesthesia care. The guidance has been written by a working ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Health
One way to reduce medical errors? Connect doctors with other doctors
We trust our doctors with our lives, but the sad and scary fact is that doctors can get things wrong. Approximately 100,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors and recent studies have found that 10 to 15% of all ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Medications
Electronic sharing of prescription medicines information would make patients safer, study shows
The number of medication errors occurring when people go into, or leave hospital, would reduce by 40% from 1.8 million to 1.1 million if information about medicines could be shared more easily electronically, University of ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Medical economics
Will a 'National Patient Safety Board,' modeled after the NTSB, actually fly?
People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can't hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes?
Jun 7, 2023
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Cardiology
Model that uses machine learning methods and patient data at hospital arrival predicts strokes more accurately
Stroke is among the most dangerous and commonly misdiagnosed medical conditions. Black and Hispanic people, women, older people on Medicare, and people in rural areas are less likely to be diagnosed in time for treatment ...
Apr 19, 2023
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South African doctors are bound by many rules: Criminal charges for mistakes may have unintended consequences
Claims for financial compensation for medical mistakes in South Africa have been on the rise since 2007. Recently, however, criminal charges for medical errors have also become more prevalent. One such case is that of Dr. ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds high rates of burnout across health care professions
Burnout is associated with adverse outcomes including medical errors and lower quality of care. While many studies have focused on physician or nurse burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic increased stress across the health care ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Medical error
Medical error is an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis and/or treatment of a disease; injury; syndrome; behavior; infection or other ailment.
In the U.S., medical errors are estimated to result in 44,000 to 98,000 unnecessary deaths and 1,000,000 excess injuries each year. One older extrapolation suggests '180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury, the equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every 2 days'. It is estimated that in a typical 100 to 300 bed hospital in the United States, excess costs of $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 attributable to prolonged stays and complications just due to medication errors occur yearly.
However, medical error definitions are subject to debate, as there are many types of medical error from minor to major, and causality is often poorly determined. The Health Grades study statistics, based on AHRQ MedPAR data, were based on administrative records, not clinical records, and largely overlooked multi-causality of outcomes.
Medical care is frequently compared adversely to aviation: while many of the factors which lead to errors in both fields are similar, aviation's error management protocols are regarded as much more effective.
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