POSTS TAGGED AS medical errors

Diagnosing Diagnostic Errors

Conceptual Model for SPADE
What percent of primary care physicians’ diagnoses are wrong? According to the Mayo Clinic, the figure is [MORE]

Ooops!! A Major Flaw in fMRI Data

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The brain imaging technology known as functional MRI (fMRI) works by measuring blood flow in the brain, with spatial corrections [MORE]

Issues for the “Hospital-at-Home”

Hospital at Home Model
There is a deficiency in American healthcare that is hiding in plain sight. It is the deterioration [MORE]

Monitoring Medication Errors

identRX
In most instances, the label on pill bottle matches the prescription for the patient. But, what if, the wrong pills [MORE]

The Unhyped Patient Experience

Quality Care Issues
Hospitals can be miraculous places, which their advertising usually promotes for a market share advantage. Rarely does [MORE]

Kaiser’s Model Hospital at Garfield Innovation Center

Kaiser Permanente Innovation Center
In a former 37,000 sq. ft. warehouse, Kaiser Permanente created its Garfield Innovation Center (San Leandro, [MORE]

Technology Problems in the O.R.

This piece reports that in addition to “never events” which still happen during surgical operations, a quarter of all [MORE]

Diagnosis in the Age of Personalized Medicine

In their 2011 book, “Medicine in Denial,” Larry and Lincoln Weed analyzed the common causes of medical misdiagnosis and offered [MORE]

Disturbing Frequency of Surgical “Never Events”

“Never events,” like leaving a sponge in a patient’s body, or wrong site-wrong procedure-wrong patient, are never supposed to [MORE]

Hospital Errors: One in Three Patients

Emergency patient in hallway waiting for a bed
“SSE” is a healthcare acronym for serious safety event, which can result in [MORE]

Study: $20b in Costs from Medical Errors

Commissioned by the Society of Actuaries in Schaumberg, IL, and completed by consultants with Milliman in Seattle, the report used [MORE]

FDA Reviews Infusion Pump Risks

The infusion pump is a ubiquitous piece of hospital equipment, often at a 3:1 ratio to the number of [MORE]

Wrong Medical Procedures – Oops!

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid announced on Jan. 15 that it will not reimburse hospitals and surgeons for three [MORE]