Search results for "Medical errors"
Inpatient medication: Too much information, or not enough?
A recent study showed that many inpatients don't know what medications they're given in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/inpatient.htm
15 Mar 2010
Disclosing medical errors does not increase malpractice claims
The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has fully disclosed and offered compensation to patients for medical errors without increasing its total claims and liability costs, a report said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/18/7.htm
18 Aug 2010
Simplified index predicts 30-day mortality in PE patients as well as original
Disclosing medical errors does not increase malpractice claims
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/18/5.htm
18 Aug 2010
Owning your medical mistakes
At what point is it just your fault?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/11/blog.htm
15 Nov 2010
Pending lab tests rarely in discharge summaries to sub-acute care
Only 11% of sub-acute care patients with pending lab tests at discharge had these tests documented in their discharge summaries, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/12/15/1.htm
15 Dec 2010
M&M conferences get swept up in QI trend
M##amp;M conferences now increasingly focus on the underlying causes of errors and what can be learned from them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/mandm.htm
15 Jan 2011
Hospital medicine in South America
A hospitalist-in-training reports from PASHA, the first congress of the Pan-American Society of Hospitalists, held in November in Brazil.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/student.htm
15 Feb 2011
U.S. and U.K. doctors differ on reporting conflicts, errors, impaired colleagues
Physicians in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom report differences between their professional values and their actual behavior, according to new survey results.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/03/16/1.htm
16 Mar 2011
July change in physician trainees increases mortality, lowers efficiency
Year-end changeovers of physician trainees at teaching hospitals are associated with increased mortality and lower efficiency of care during July, a new review of studies found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/13/1.htm
13 Jul 2011
In the News
Central line infection rates, organizational characteristics of hospitalist groups, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/itn.htm
15 Jul 2011