Recent Posts in Hospital Medication Error Category
Posted on May 15, 2012 By Scott Distasio
In 2007, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report indicating at least 1.5 million people each year are the victims of some kind of medication error . According to CNN , a separate study from ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Any hospital patient who has counted the minutes until her next dose of pain medication can tell you how agonizing that wait can be. Hospital staff accept that medication is “on time” so ...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Anita Griffie sought emergency medical help at Gaston Memorial Hospital last November when she had trouble breathing. With congenital heart failure, she was frequently in and out of the hospital for ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists examined a program in which hospital pharmacists were involved in discharging patients. According to the study, the percentage of patients discharged ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Scott Distasio
A California Health Department investigation uncovered a medication storage problem at Kaiser Foundation Hospital South San Fransisco. The investigation began when two patients received pneumonia ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2011 By Scott Distasio
A Miami man was admitted to the North Shore Medical Center's ICU after a dialysis session in July of 2010 when he experienced difficulty breathing. When he complained of an upset stomach, his ...
Continue reading "Hospital Patient Dies in Miami After Receiving Paralytic Instead of Antacid" »
Posted on Dec 2, 2011 By Scott Distasio
October ended in tragedy for the family of six month old Amaan Ahmmad. The infant was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn for treatment of a fever. Emergency room doctors determined ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Scott Distasio
York Hospital in central Pennsylvania is home to what industry experts are heralding as breakthrough technology. In this teaching hospital, the IV systems are computerized and automated, linking ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2011 By
Despite his pharmacology training and advocating on her behalf, Joe Graedon's mother, Helen, died when the hospital gave the wrong medication. He told caregivers repeatedly that she could not tolerate ...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2011 By
Eurekalert.org reported t he American Psychological Association's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied published a special issue examining ways to reduce medical errors and improve patient ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2011 By
A new study reports more than 50 percent of all drug reactions treated in emergency rooms could have been prevented. Researchers in Sweden also reported many preventable drug mistakes , including ...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2011 By
A study by Johns Hopkins indicates that temporary emergency room workers pose a safety risk to the patients they are meant to help. In light of the national nursing shortage, many facilities hire ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2011 By
According to US Politics Today, medication errors are increasing and the aging population should be concerned. A report by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality indicates the number of ...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2011 By
Informationweek.com reported recently on a study in the Journal of the American Medical Infometrics Association that shows electronic systems that are meant to reduce hospital medication errors might ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2011 By
Typically hospital patients see many people during their stays including nurses, doctors, radiologists, specialists, and technicians. While hospital pharmacists are often a part of the care routine, ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 By
Tuesday the parents of a toddler who died after a hospital medication error filed suit against the Nebraska Medical Center where she was treated. The Omaha World Herald reported Almariah Izabel Duque ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By Scott Distasio
New York Times writer Tara Parker-Pope recently wrote about the drastic increase in Medication mistakes in recent years. In 2008, 1.9 million people were affected by Medication side effects, because ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Scott Distasio
19 patients in 6 Alabama hospitals were infected with bacteria after using total parenteral nutrition (TPN), which is a liquid nutrition fed through an IV using a catheter. 9 of those patients died. ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Scott Distasio
A Lee county family was awarded a $19.2 million verdict, in a medical malpractice suit. In 2007 Kiarra Smith was born premature at HealthPark Medical Center. As a result, her physician ordered her to ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Scott Distasio
Arsula Samson, 80, was given ten times the amount of potassium chloride in a fatal hospital prescription error . The staff nurse pumped 50ml of the drug over half an hour, instead of the prescribed ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2011 By
Doctors at the Albany Medical Center did a study of more than 2,000 near miss prescription errors . Crystal Phend wrote an article about this study for MedPage Today , which takes a more in depth look ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By
At University Hospital of North Staffordshire, in England, Olive Hamer was killed due to being given double the amount of prescription blood thinners. Catherine Ball of The Sentinel wrote an article ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By
In the United States, service members or their families cannot sue for medical malpractice or wrongful death . The reason is something called the Feres Doctrine, a law that bars members of the ...
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