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Archive: January 2013

When supervising nurses follow the safety instructions that they give subordinates and when unit nurses feel comfortable admitting mistakes, the risk of hospital medical errors falls. That’s the finding of a new study that probes how care providers experience a…

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Most people would consider it a freak accident for a surgeon to leave a surgical instrument in patient’s body or to operate on the wrong body part. But as Seattle medical malpractice attorneys know, such medical mistakes occur far too…

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An estimated 1.3 million people every year suffer injuries from medication errors. These errors include the wrong dose, the wrong drug, and the wrong route of administration. Administration of the wrong drug accounts for 41 percent, or the highest number,…

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It’s clear to our team of Seattle medical malpractice attorneys that a combination of prevention efforts and error-mitigating strategies can reduce the rate of medical mistakes in our hospitals. A new initiative spearheaded by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University…

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A recent medical study has found that surgery patients with postoperative complications are the most likely to be readmitted within 30 days of discharge. The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, may help hospitals adopt…

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In a horrifying mistake, a nurse in Ohio mistakenly flushed a kidney that was ready for transplant into a hospital waste-collection system. The case, which has medical malpractice implications, has staggered the medical community across the country and  raised questions…

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Researchers have announced the development of a new smart tool that may help reduce errors during microsurgery by surgeons with imperceptible hand tremors. The smart tool, which may lead to safer, “shake-free” surgery, has been developed by researchers at Johns…

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Children are some of the biggest victims of medical errors in American hospitals, with approximately 3 percent of hospitalized children suffering the effects of medical errors every year. However, children who suffer from chronic illnesses are more likely to be…

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