“Hospitals spend millions of dollars to implement CPOE systems, but our results clearly show that many hospitals’ systems are not operating as well as they should, putting patients’ lives at risk.” To ...
Hospitals are beginning to add pharmacists to their emergency department staffs in an effort to reduce medication errors, which contribute to more than 7,000 deaths annually in the United States, ...
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The College of Registered Nurses and Midwives of P.E.I. has suspended a nurse for 90 days because of what the college called ...
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As we saw in last week’s essay, preventable errors are unnecessary, avoidable threats to obtaining beneficial therapy.Correcting them is prohibitive in terms of financial, emotional and physical ...
Preventable errors have nearly doubled over the past decade in Minnesota hospitals, where staffing shortages and other pressures have left patients more vulnerable to disabling falls, assaults and ...
Connecticut hospitals reported record numbers of patients killed or seriously injured by hospital errors in 2013. When calculated in terms of patient volume, New ...