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The pain of wrong site surgery
When the president of the Joint Commission, the Chicago-based group that accredits the nation's hospitals, unveiled...
Web Exclusive: Adverse Events in Hospitals Largely Undetected
Adverse events serious enough to harm patients are occurring in U.S. hospitals at least 10 times more often than...
Web Exclusive: Medical Error Rates Vary Widely, HealthGrades Finds
Patients have a 46% lower risk of experiencing a safety incident at a top-rated hospital compared to a poorly rated...
Web Exclusive: 7 Medical Error Disclosure Deterrents
When medical residents fail to report errors and unsafe conditions, the teaching institution misses opportunities to...
A pinpoint beam strays invisibly, harming instead of healing
Stereotactic radiosurgery, or SRS, is one of the fastest-growing radiation therapies, a technological innovation...
Web Exclusive: Medical Errors Stubbornly Common, Studies Find
Eleven years after a major study revealed medical errors to be widespread and deadly, the results from two recent...
Web Exclusive: Pediatric Medical Errors Most Likely in Gynecologic, GI Surgeries
The presence of foreign bodies unintentionally left inside young patients during surgery adds to the duration and cost...
Grand jury: Jackson Health System a ’colossal mess’
Jackson Health System is a "colossal mess" that must be governed in a new way, a Miami-Dade grand jury said...
Man falls off surgical table; St. Joseph’s Hospital sued
Max DeVries was sedated and awaiting a routine surgery when he rolled off the operating table and hit his head, where...
Pitching patient safety and hospital transparency on YouTube
While some experts have warned that the full disclosure approach to medical errors could lead to more lawsuits and...