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Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.
After the trial, a Change.org petition requesting clemency for Vaught quickly garnered over 200,000 signatures. [2] [14]In response to the public backlash, the prosecutor's office issued a statement in which it defended its decision to prosecute Vaught: "The jury's conviction of Radonda Vaught was not an indictment against the nursing profession or the medical community.
Mr Kingston, the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter, ‘was suffering adverse effects of medication’, his inquest was told. Coroner issues warning about depression ...
Patient safety is a discipline focused on improving health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of errors and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events.
A Kentucky dentist has been convicted of illegally prescribing morphine that resulted in the overdose death of a patient. A jury in federal court in Covington acquitted Dr. Jay M. Sadrinia ...
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A New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak that began in September 2012 sickened 798 individuals and resulted in the deaths of 64 people. [2] [3] [4] In September 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), began investigating a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis and ...
State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including one who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.