Articles Tagged With: errors
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Doctor Challenges Medical Errors ‘Hysteria’
A report calling medical errors the third leading cause of death has serious flaws that make that conclusion invalid, according to a physician. He says the report contributes to an irrational hysteria over medical errors.
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Medical Errors: Third Leading Cause of Death
A new study concludes that medical errors are so common that they are the third leading cause of death, though the researchers say error-related deaths currently are not documented well.
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Use Quality Assurance Tools to Identify — and Fix — Errors Before Claims Go Out
Patient access leaders at Marion (IN) General Hospital wrote rules, tested, and trained more than 70 registrars before going live with a new electronic quality assurance tool in March 2014. The tool (AhiQA, manufactured by Alpharetta, GA-based Relay Health) allows registrars to see errors right after the registration is complete, so they can correct them immediately.
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Hospital Explains Errors with Duplicate Dose, Clonidine
A recent issue of the Safety Matters newsletter from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, includes stories about two errors that threatened patient safety. The incidents are typical of the errors shared publicly by the hospital.
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Quality and Safety Promoted by Disclosing Errors to All Staff
Most hospitals have embraced the idea of disclosing medical errors to the patient and family members, but Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, goes a step further by informing all hospital staff about these incidents.
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Risk managers should disclose errors to staff, not just to the patient
Most hospitals have embraced the idea of disclosing medical errors to the patient and family members, but Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston goes a step further by informing all staff about these incidents. The policy could provide information to be used against the hospital in litigation, the risk manager says, but educating staff and improving patient safety are worth the risk.
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Medication errors happen in about half of surgeries
A recent study indicates that medication errors occur in about half of all surgeries, possibly because patient safety policies and procedures are relaxed in the operating room.
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Disclosing medical errors to children is usually the right move
The medical community has embraced the concept of disclosing medical errors to patients promptly and honestly, but there is still some question about how to handle pediatric patients. Should you tell a child that you made a mistake? If so, how?
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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.