Medical Spa MD: Burned out & depressed plastic surgeons more likely to commit medical errors?
24
November
Preventable Medical Errors: Neither Insurance Nor Patients Should Pay
Medicare, the largest insurance provider in the country, announced on October 1, 2008, that it will no longer be financially responsible for the costs of hospital’s medical errors, nor will these costs be pinned on patients themselves.
According to a study by The Institute of Medicine, conducted in 1999, preventable medical errors cause the deaths of 44,000-98,000 people each year. These deaths are the result of many preventable errors dealing with misdiagnosis, improper treatment, and inadequate preventative care.
7
October
Sound-Alike Drug Names Increase the Risk of Medication Errors
Whether the drug names are Celexa and Celebrex, Losec and Lasix, or even Prilosec and Prozac, sound-alike drug names pose dangers to patients. Those dangers are compounded by the multi-ethnic and geographic diversity of the U.S. healthcare system, where strong accents combined with ordinary mispronunciation of complex pharmaceutical terms can lead to catastrophic outcomes if the wrong medication is accidentally dispensed. Medication errors and sound-alike drug names are the topics of a recent article featured on HealthDay News.
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August