Articles Tagged With: error
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ED Nurses Also Face Liability for Misdiagnosis
The idea that it is not within the nurses’ scope of practice to contribute to diagnosis is both dangerous and wrong.
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Artificial Intelligence Coming to EDs to Improve Stroke Diagnosis
Strokes, especially posterior circulation events, are associated with significant diagnostic error in the ED. Machine learning models can be designed to capture subtle signs and assist providers in catching cases that might otherwise go undetected.
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Wrong-patient Errors Can Lead to Death, But They Can Be Prevented
About 9% of the wrong-patient events studied for a just-released report led to temporary or permanent harm or, in some cases, death.
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Paperwork error leaves hospital without insurance and forced to defend malpractice suit on its own
In 2008, a woman went to a hospital seeking treatment for weight and size reduction. A physician recommended a form of mesotherapy, which is a non-surgical technique to dissolve fat tissues through injections.
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Summit focus: Efforts to improve diagnosis accuracy
Responding to the 2015 Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare report from the Institute of Medicine that placed a public spotlight on the issue of diagnostic accuracy, the American Board of Medical Specialties and the National Patient Safety Foundation recently brought together experts to address the issue.
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Wrong-site surgery traced to lack of timeout
A surgeon’s wrong-site error on a patient’s brain happened because he failed to perform a timeout before the procedure, according to a recent court decision that also describes how the physician tried to hide his error and did not report the sentinel event to administrators.
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Hospital recounts NICU mistake and how staff did not disclose properly
A recent issue of the Safety Matters publication at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told the story of how a tubing connection error occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit, which caused intravenous fluid to damage the baby’s skin at the wrist.
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Healthcare is Wrong About Errors
The IOM calls on the healthcare community to address diagnosis errors by treating them as systemic problems and not human errors made by individuals.