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Poor communication (whether in one's own language or, as may be the case for medical tourists, another language), improper documentation, illegible handwriting, spelling errors, inadequate nurse-to-patient ratios, and similarly named medications are also known to contribute to the problem.
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease and cancer, according to research by Johns Hopkins University. Their study published in May 2016 concludes that more than 250,000 people die every year due to medical mix-ups. Other countries report similar results. [192]
Family-activated METs were put in place as a response to the preventable death of Josie King in 2001. King was 18-months old when she died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, from medical errors and delays in escalation of care despite her family’s concerns. As a result of the highly publicized death, the Children’s Hospital of ...
A warning has been issued to travelers over the spread of three diseases, including the Marburg virus. It’s a close cousin of Ebola that’s been dubbed the “bleeding eye” virus due to one ...
By Mariam Sunny and Kamal Choudhury (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Ionis Pharmaceuticals' drug to treat a rare genetic disorder, making it the company's first wholly ...
Train people on team errors, their causes and interventions. Participate in formal team-development training. Practice questioning attitude/situational awareness on the job and during training. Designate a devil's advocate for problem-solving situations. Call “timeouts” to help the team achieve a shared understanding of plant or product status.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a draft recommendation advising against using vitamin D to prevent falls and fractures in people over 60. Pharmacist Katy Dubinsky weighs in.
Inattention or judgment errors related to drugs and volatile agents; Termination of anesthesia too soon before surgery has finished, due to poor communication; Lack of understanding of offset times of volatile agents; Backflow of induction agent up a giving set; Failure to fill vaporizers (which is the cause of 19% of the cases of AAGA)