Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore conducted a study to determine weather using contact precautions on hospital patients is linked to patient adverse events. The ...
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers a free, downloadable checklist to help healthcare organizations manage adverse events. The checklist, Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse ...
Access to patient-reported outcome (PRO) data significantly improved providers' consistency in assessing adverse events in patients with cancer, with the greatest improvements observed for ...
Harm and the potential for harm from medical care is pervasive and well-documented. Much of the safety literature has historically focused on physical harm, but the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...
Hospitals’ incident reporting systems are missing about half of Medicare patient harm events and even more infrequently investigating those events or reporting them to the government, according to a ...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (7News) — The authors of a Maryland Department of Health report call medical errors at hospitals a "trend" and state the repeated rise in the reporting of medical mistakes is an "after ...
Despite decades of calls for more attention to patient safety in hospitals, people undergoing surgery still have high rates of complications and medical errors, a new study finds. More than a third of ...
For higher-risk multiple myeloma (MM), successful patient selection and monitoring strategies are vital for the management of adverse events and the disease itself. Given the complexity of CAR T and ...
Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US state of Massachusetts, published by The BMJ today. Of the 1009 ...
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