Latest medication errors Stories
National Patient Safety Week presents an ideal time to reinforce how technology helps reduce the risk of deadly outcomes in the operating room and beyond CLEVELAND, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Medication errors are happening right now, somewhere. Despite persistent education and best efforts, errors continue to occur in the perioperative environment. National Patient Safety Week, March 3-9, 2013, focuses on educating patients and healthcare professionals and underscores the need...
California medical malpractice attorney Dr. Bruce Fagel discussed a serious issue with medication errors in hospitals and doctors offices. Dr. Fagel recently spoke at the American Heart Association national meeting and PBS "Need to Know" January 25th. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 19, 2013 “Medical malpractice, including medication errors in hospitals, doctor’s offices, and nursing homes has become a serious problem affecting millions of lives,” according to California...
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to provide the best patient care possible, Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) recently announced its successful integration of B. Braun Medical Inc.'s (B.Braun) innovative Outlook(®) 400ES Safety Infusion System. After exploring numerous infusion pump options for their hospital, WMHS's leadership selected B.Braun's Outlook(®) 400ES System for its ease of use, wireless reporting and safety features. The medical...
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study, published online today by the peer-reviewed journal American Health & Drug Benefits, reveals the significant national burden that harmful medication errors, also called preventable adverse drug events (ADEs), associated with injectable medications have on hospitals, patients, and our healthcare system. Results show that preventable ADEs associated with injectable medications cost an average of $600,000 per hospital...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CareFusion Corp. (NYSE: CFN), a leading, global medical technology company, today announced the implementation of a solution that connects its Alaris(®) System smart infusion pumps with the Cerner Millennium(®1 )electronic health record (EHR) at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. The technology is designed to help reduce the risk of harmful and costly intravenous (IV) medication programming errors at the patient bedside....
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ICU Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICUI) announced today that a clinical case study prepared by clinicians from Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I. showed that a collaboratively-developed custom IV system featuring the MicroClave® needlefree neutral displacement connector helped reduce NICU infection rates and medication errors, while also addressing recent FDA concerns regarding the safety of positive displacement needlefree...
Analysis of submitted medication events reveals serious process issues PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medication mishaps are the most common errors in healthcare. Indeed, medication errors represent the most frequently reported events submitted to ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO)--comprising about 30% of all events. To assist healthcare facilities in learning from medication errors, ECRI Institute PSO developed and conducted a deep...
SAN DIEGO, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Technology Safety Institute (HTSI)--part of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Foundation--is taking a leading role in looking at one of healthcare's toughest challenges. The institute was awarded a $328,660 grant by the CareFusion Foundation to fund a three-year national study on key issues surrounding the administration of intravenous (IV) medication using smart pumps. The goal of this...
Over 500 medication error reports imply an event occurred while the pharmacy department was closed HARRISBURG, Pa., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Between June 2004 and September 2010, Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Patient Safety Authority that implied an event occurred while the pharmacy department was closed, according to information published in the March Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory released today. On-site 24-hour...
Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme. These are the findings of a comprehensive study into sustainable ways of preventing patients from being harmed as a result of prescribing errors. The research was led by Tony Avery, Professor of Primary Health Care in the School of Community Health Sciences at The University of Nottingham and funded by the Patient Safety...
