The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool identified 10 times more hospital errors than the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicators and voluntary reporting detected, ...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has begun publishing a newsletter featuring medical errors made at the hospital to help physicians learn from the mistakes, according to a report in The Boston ...
John James has dedicated himself to improving hospital safety. His teenage son died after what James calls a series of hospital errors. "We got humans here. They make mistakes," James said. "The real ...
Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run ...
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Systems, not scapegoats: Why hospital errors keep repeating
WHEN a patient is harmed in a hospital, our cultural reflex is to hunt for a villain. A doctor is named, a nurse is ...
In my last post, you met Paul Hastings, the recently-retired accountant about to embark on an around-the-world trip who ended up with one-way ticket to the hospital instead. More people die from ...
Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run ...
In its hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a nurse gave Frederick Roufs, 73, the wrong drug, one of 26 medication errors the hospital made over six months. He died two days later at another ...
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