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Newborns at Risk from Tired Parents, Family
The scenario is dreadful, but it actually happens with some regularity: A mother holding her newborn child, perhaps nursing, falls asleep from exhaustion. She either accidentally smothers or drops the child, resulting in serious injury or death.
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Recipe Ingredients Must Be Monitored
In addition to the patient-specific menus, ensuring patient safety requires tracking all the recipes and ingredients used in all the food items.
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Allergies Most Common in Dietary Errors
Most dietary errors are related to food allergies, according to an analysis of errors reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority over five years.
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Safety Risks in Food Services Can Be Underestimated
Food services can play an important role in patient safety, but may not receive enough attention.
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Hospital Escapes 40% Ostensible Agency Liability on Appeal
A patient sued his anesthesiologists and hospital, alleging a failure to obtain informed consent and negligence that resulted in his quadriplegia.
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Undiagnosed Fistula Yields $50 Million Verdict
A patient sued an obstetrician, the hospital, and midwife, alleging that the physician’s conduct amounted to malpractice and the midwife negligently failed to administer a test that would have revealed the fistula.
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Healthcare Cyberattacks on Rise, May Get Worse
Cyberattacks affecting healthcare institutions in the United States increased by 63% year over year to a total of 93 major attacks, according to a recent report.
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Patient Safety Improved with Centralized Hospital Command
Optimizing patient safety often means knowing what is going on throughout the hospital and responding before an issue gets out of hand.
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Reducing Diagnostic Errors Requires Multiple Approaches
Reducing diagnostic errors requires a combination of strategies that address the reason most of these errors occur and the application of the latest data analytics.
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Hospital Wins Lawsuit After Rape of Mental Health Patient
A hospital prevailed recently in a lawsuit alleging malpractice related to one patient raping another, and legal analysts attribute the verdict to the hospital successfully arguing that it should be tried as a malpractice case rather than a simple civil lawsuit alleging negligence.