News tagged with medication errors
Wrong dose of heart meds too frequent in children
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Infants and young children treated with heart drugs get the wrong dose or end up on the wrong end of medication errors more often than older children, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center to be ...
Diagnostic errors: The new focus of patient safety experts
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. ...
Errors involving medications common in outpatient cancer treatment
Dec 30, 2008 |
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Seven percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes involving their medications, according to a new study led ...
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Electronic prescribing systems boost efficiency, may lead to improved quality of care
May 04, 2009 |
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New research published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that the adoption of electronic prescribing systems may allow for greater efficiency at hospitals, which could result in lon ...
Report: Drug errors common, at times fatal
Jul 21, 2006 |
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Every day one hospital patient is the victim of at least one drug overdose or medication mistake, a national report says.
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Jan 04, 2007 |
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Regulation set to take effect tomorrow, Jan. 5, 2007, is designed to reduce medication errors in California hospitals and free pharmacists for greater involvement in direct patient care rather than in non-discretionary (clerical) ...
FDA launches plan to curb accidental overdoses
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems.
Most pediatric chemotherapy mistakes reach patients
May 25, 2007 |
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The vast majority of chemotherapy errors identified in children reach patients, according to one of the first epidemiological studies of cancer drug errors in children. Published in the July 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed ...
Electronic Pharmacy May Protect War Veterans from Medication Errors
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thousands of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan sustained life-threatening injuries but were fortunate enough to return home alive.
Analysis of quickly stopped Rx orders provides new tool for reducing medical errors
Jul 18, 2008 |
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By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated a systematic and efficient ...
Questioning why health care IT manufacturers aren't liable for product-related medical errors
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Even when their products are implicated in harm to patients, manufacturers of healthcare information technology (HIT) currently enjoy wide contractual and legal protection that renders them virtually "liability-free," writes ...
Implications of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.
A silly pat on the head helps seniors remember daily med, study suggests
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Doing something unusual, like knocking on wood or patting yourself on the head, while taking a daily dose of medicine may be an effective strategy to help seniors remember whether they've ...
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