Delaying diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones results in increased risk for both complications and necessary additional care
New research confirms that Endovascular Therapy (ET) is a new and improved way to treat stroke victims.
The "Standard of Care" is something a jury decides, including not only evidence of how doctors in Washington state actually practice, but also what experts for both sides say is the standard.
A new stroke treatment recently studied in the Netherlands is giving the medical community hope that it will soon have another treatment for patients who suffer from ischemic strokes. The treatment involves threading a stent with a snare at the end up through an artery in the groin to grab and pull out the clot in the brain.
Hand-offs – patient information communicated from one provider to another – are a source of many errors that lead to patient injury. A new study and associated solution is hoping to cut those errors and increase patient safety.
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
The New England Journal of Medicine concludes that medical malpractice lawsuits do not result in the practice of "defensive medicine." What they do result in is making it more difficult, and sometimes impossible, for patient victims to recover anything for their harms and losses.
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can be dangerous to patients when doctors and other healthcare providers spend less time taking a history and more time scanning through often repetitive information in the patient’s electronic chart.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems can cause serious diagnostic and treatment errors
The Joint Commission’s review of "sentinel events" in hospitals works to understand why mistakes were made and how hospitals can avoid them in the future.