When researchers proposed the shocking statistic that medical errors were the third leading cause of death in the United States, the healthcare community reacted in a variety of ways. Instead of ...
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Fear of legal consequences and institutional secrecy prevent learning from medical errors, expert argues
Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...
I came across an interesting article in The New York Times‘ editorial section today, written by Sanjay Gupta, the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, and CNN‘s chief medical ...
Errors are an unavoidable part of modern life. From minor human misjudgments to large-scale system failures, errors influence ...
Each year, a staggering 400,000 people are estimated to have died due to medical errors. What's more, each day there's also 10,000 serious complications resulting from medical mistakes. Part of the ...
Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital's cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist. According to St Vincent's ...
In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to patients and healthcare providers about overdoses associated with a drug used for weight loss. FDA officials said the agency has received ...
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