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.
Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) are a relatively new phenomenon. While there can be some benefit to having a surgical procedure at an ASC, there are good reasons to be careful, not the least of which is that surgeons and anesthesiologists often have a strong financial interest in performing your surgery there, when it may not be the safest choice for you.
For attorneys representing victims of medical malpractice, it is a sad truth that jurors tend to want to find ways to blame the patient victim.
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
A recent California lawsuit alleges that orthopedic surgeons used "knock-off" spine hardware in surgeries. Much of the hardware failed, causing patients serious medical issues, while the surgeons, clinics and machine shop fabricating the hardware apparently reaped thousands of dollars in profits from using the counterfeit products.
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
