BlogStudy Shows No Malpractice Premium Crisis For Massachusetts PhysiciansMassachusetts has the fourth-Highest malpractice settlement payments in the nation. Nearly all Bay State physicians paid lower inflation-adjusted malpractice premiums in 2005 than in 1990. Suffolk University Law School researcher Marc Rodwin and colleagues analyzed malpractice premiums from 1975 to 2005 using data from Pro Mutual, a state-regulated insurer. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/835
Drug errors found to affect 1 in 15 children Experiencing harm as a result of your health care is much more common than people believe. Researchers found a rate of 11 drug-related harmful events for every 100 hospitalized children
Doctors Who Do Harm Research shows that doctors disciplined by their state medical boards were three times as likely to have exhibited unprofessional behavior when they were medical students. 'The tradition of professionalism must begin in medical school,' says study author Dr. Maxine Papadakis, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. '
Latrogenic events among newborns are frequent and often preventable This study allows the cause, severity, and preventability of iatrogenic events in neonatology to be defined," the authors said. "A third of all iatrogenic events and more than a quarter of severe iatrogenic events were preventable. Iatrogenic events seem to be less preventable in neonates that in adults and children, in whom 40-60% of adverse events are preventable
In An Emergency Doctors May Be Giving The Wrong Dosage Of Adrenaline Because Of Labelling A new study by Cambridge University reveals that doctors treating life-threatening emergencies such as allergy attacks may give the wrong dosage of adrenaline (epinephrine) because of confusing labelling.
Half of doctors mum about medical mistakes Survey: Physicians believe errors should be reported, but don't always do so
Hospital makes 3rd brain surgery mistake PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island Hospital has been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient's head.
Hepatitis Found Again Among Doctor?s Patients Nassau County health officials yesterday reported another positive test for hepatitis among the patients of an anesthesiologist on Long Island whose faulty infection-control practices put hundreds of people at risk.
N.Y. State Health Officials Inform 628 Patients About Doctor's Misuse Of Needles New York state health officials this week notified 628 people that they should seek testing for HIV, hepatitis and other bloodborne diseases because between 2000 and 2005 they were treated by a Nassau County, N.Y., anesthesiologist who reused syringes when injecting patients with more than one drug
Nurse Who Demonstrated A Lack Of Basic Anatomical Knowledge Found Guilty Of Misconduct A 53 year old nurse from Birmingham who was found guilty of a string of allegations of misconduct which occurred between May and July 2005 will no longer be able to work as a nurse.
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Responds To Medication Errors The recent medication error involving dangerous doses of heparin to the newborn children of actor Dennis Quaid announced highlight the continuing imperative to make real progress in eliminating medication errors. Suffolk University Law School researcher Marc Rodwin and colleagues analyzed malpractice premiums from 1975 to 2005 using data from Pro Mutual, a state-regulated insurer. Topics
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