True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

Effective communication is the backbone of high-quality health care. Whether between clinicians and patients or among interdisciplinary teams, the ability to exchange information clearly, ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital's cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist. According to St Vincent's ...

Instead, we must recognize errors as complex, often arising from a convergence of factors-including gaps in knowledge and communication, inadequate awareness, and various system-based challenges." ...

Medical errors are a sobering reality in healthcare systems around the world. Despite the best efforts of medical professionals, mistakes can and do happen. Understanding the impact of these errors on ...

When information is unrecorded, misdirected, never received, never retrieved or ignored in healthcare, patients can be adversely effected. A recent report — “Malpractice Risks in Communication ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Shortly before shift change, a patient with cirrhosis is admitted with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, a dangerous but treatable abdominal infection. The admitting provider orders the appropriate ...

As we saw in last week’s essay, preventable errors are unnecessary, avoidable threats to obtaining beneficial therapy.Correcting them is prohibitive in terms of financial, emotional and physical ...

We've seen how profoundly things unravel when communication breaks down ...