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A hospital in New York City is being sued by a former patient who says staff forced him to undergo a rectal examination even after he vehemently refused and fought the doctor and nurses, who then sedated him and went ahead with the exam.
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A renewed focus on safety issues with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines has upped the ante for risk managers, says the leading authority on this issue.
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News: A man was working with chemicals at his job when a chemical cleaning solution splashed into his eye. He presented to a nearby emergency department, where doctors irrigated his eye to remove the chemical.
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News: A woman admitted to the hospital put her hand on a metal railing by her bed in her hospital room. The part of the metal rail that the woman grabbed had a towel draped over it, and a used hypodermic needle was in the towel.
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Two hospitals in Boston are taking the lead in patient safety by pledging to eliminate all preventable patient harm within four years, a goal that some patient safety experts applaud, but which others say is not a realistic goal.
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The criminal charge filed against a patient who was forced to undergo a rectal exam may have been one factor that led to a civil lawsuit against the hospital, say legal observers.
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The Joint Commission's sentinel event database includes five cases that resulted in four deaths and affected four adults and one child, according to Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, president of The Joint Commission.
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The Virginia Supreme Court in Richmond has ruled that a physician foundation tied to the University of Virginia Medical School in Richmond and its doctors are not immune from malpractice suits because of the foundation's charitable work.
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An initiative aimed at standardizing interventions related to the rapid diagnosis and treatment of severe sepsis has significantly improved patient safety at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
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The lawsuit filed against Hollywood (CA) Presbyterian Medical Center could affect how hospitals nationwide discharge the homeless, say some legal observers.