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Medical errors kill scores of Americans. Women and minorities are more likely to receive a misdiagnosis, a recent study finds. Common medical errors kill scores each year in the U.S., especially ...
More than 130 employees at a CVS specialty pharmacy in Redlands are seeking a union election. The move is part of a movement in the U.S. to organize the industry.
The regulator said use of affected products may cause serious health consequences, including lack of proper ventilation, loss of a protected airway and death. There have been 35 reported injuries ...
To Err Is Human. (report) To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System is a landmark report issued in November 1999 by the U.S. Institute of Medicine that may have resulted in increased awareness of U.S. medical errors. The push for patient safety that followed its release continues.
Discovering that patient safety had become a frequent topic for journalists, health care experts, and the public, it was harder to see overall improvements on a national level. What was noteworthy was the impact on attitudes and organizations. Few health care professionals now doubted that preventable medical injuries were a serious problem.
Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.
The Hopkins team used evidence from four studies that analyzed medical death rate data from 2000 to 2008, including one by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector ...
Academic work. Institutions. University of Toronto. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Kaveh G. Shojania is a Canadian doctor, academic and an author. He is the vice chair of quality & innovation in the department of medicine at the University of Toronto [ 1] as well as staff physician at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. [ 2]