Quality & Patient Safety Articles by Topic: Adverse Events
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
Members of the public in the state of Connecticut are being increasingly kept in the dark about...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 46, November 18, 2009
HCPro is proud to announce its latest patient safety product: Patient Safety Monitor.
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
A study published in the November 9 Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that hospital staff...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
Physicians are responsible for one of the most complicated and important decisions in...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
After admitting last month it delivered radiation via CT scans to patients at eight times the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 44, November 4, 2009
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has issued an advisory regarding the use of Tamiflu in...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 44, November 4, 2009
Staff members at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI, have committed the facility's fifth...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 43, October 28, 2009
The initial meeting of the Subcommittee on Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 41, October 14, 2009
Washington is one of the only states in the nation to require mandatory reporting of medical...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 41, October 14, 2009
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, has found that it accidentally administered...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 40, October 7, 2009
The debate on whether reducing the number of hours that graduate medical students can work...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In the decade that has passed since the 1999 release of the Institute of Medicine’s To Err is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 39, September 30, 2009
A study published in the September 2009 Journal of the American College of Surgeons has concluded...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
A recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that physicians who were...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 37, September 16, 2009
Electronic alerts were found to have had a significant impact on the number of potential...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
A recent commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association calls for a list of patient...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
New Jersey joins a list of states that by law requires hospitals to provide information about...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
In the past ten years, a fair amount of headway has been made in refining error reporting systems...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
This issue contains stories that discuss a new consumer reporting system developed by the Agency...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, August 26, 2009
Traditionally, the healthcare system has taken an approach to medical errors that involves secrecy...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation released last week shows that emergency departments...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
In a new report titled "Back to Basics," the consumer activist group Public Citizen has...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
An article in the July Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety highlights the gaps...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) warned of potential misuse of pain release balls...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, July 8, 2009
Stemming from the mandate of a 2005 law, the New York State Department of Health released a report...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Performing hand hygiene adequately and often is something that many healthcare facilities are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
For the first time since the state began requiring hospitals to report serious medical errors five...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Although U.S. leaders in industry and politics agree that the healthcare system needs a complete...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
In what healthcare analysts believe to be representative of the nation as a whole, hospitals are...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) has been thought to be one method to reduce the number of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
Nine hospitals began taking part in a pilot program last week to track and analyze adverse events...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
The American Hospital Association (AHA) voiced support of the American Council for Graduate Medical...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
Beginning this year, Malaysia’s Health Ministry will implement the "Incident Reporting...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
At a recent press conference held at Jordan’s Health Care Accreditation Council (HCAC...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
After Ennis General Hospital received a poor report about their quality and patient safety services...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
After a two-year investigation conducted by The Star of the cosmetic surgery industry and its lack...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 7, April 14, 2009
A new antibiotic aimed at shortening the time to cure tuberculosis (TB) has passed a key phase...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The sixth annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study was released on April 7...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A paper published in the most recent issue of Health Affairshighlights some of the areas in which...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 31, 2009
After a highly criticized report of one Stafford hospital led the Healthcare Commission to brand...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 31, 2009
Police have been called in to help investigate the Hospital Authority's most recent allegation of...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 31, 2009
Trinidad's Health Ministry will be taking a step toward improving patient safety by introducing the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) revealed new figures stating that during a recent six...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has composed a list of eight errors that National Health...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
Public concern is rising after a Tokyo eye clinic revealed that 67 patients have suffered from...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 6, March 17, 2009
The way in which patients and healthcare providers communicate will be revolutionized by the use of...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
A recent report by the New York City (NYC) comptroller found that hospitals in NYC report...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
Press Ganey, a consulting firm that works with 40% of the nation's hospitals to help improve...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
Six months after the launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new pre-operative...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
Ventracor's VentrAssist, an implant used to treat heart failure, will be banned worldwide after the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has asked that manufactures of the drug ibuprofen update its...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public health advisory for patients using the...
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Patient Safety Staff Challenge: Global Edition, Issue 5, March 3, 2009
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has urged all National Health System (NHS) and...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 4, February 17, 2009
Britain's most senior radiology specialist announced that unnecessary deaths are occurring because...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 4, February 17, 2009
In Ireland, a cabinet-proposed plan will protect healthcare staff members wishing to report on...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 4, February 17, 2009
As New South Wales (NSW) public hospitals report their worst financial results on record for the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Patients who have been educated about how to continue their care once they are discharged from the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is being sued for failing to release peer review records and other...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, February 4, 2009
A new study shows that transferring a peel-off colored sticker from a medication vial to a syringe...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
The United Kingdom’s Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) have claimed that patients&rsquo...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
At Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, nearly fifty patients have been treated on temporary beds at...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
A recent report by the Productivity Commission found that Queensland hospitals show some of the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 3, February 3, 2009
A Freedom of Information request by Liberal Democrats has revealed that from 2007-2008, 191 deaths...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
As part of an expansion of the Patient Safety Act that went into effect in New Jersey four years...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
In an attempt to prevent wrong-site surgeries, Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN, has taken a...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
California has published a study ranking hospitals based on their mortality rates, reports The Los...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Since August 2008, patients at Veterans Affairs (VA) health centers across the country have been...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
A study released by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week shows that when implementing the...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 0, January 20, 2009
The Scottish government, working with infection experts, has announced a 15-point plan to help its...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority will be forced to investigate and review the 2,577 deaths that...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
According to figures obtained by The Daily Mail, 3,645 patients have died in the 2007/2008 year as...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 2, January 20, 2009
A pilot study in which eight hospitals across the globe implemented a new surgical checklist has...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
Although his inauguration does not take place until next week, President-elect Barack Obama is...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
The inability for medical devices to communicate with each other is becoming a growing concern...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
Pfizer has joined together with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality Healthcare is asking the Australian government to...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Little has been done to help the crumbling buildings and failing infrastructure of the United...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Health Minister Katy Gallagher has called for patient electronic health cards for Canberra...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 52, December 24, 2008
In 2007, 72 people died in New Jersey hospitals due to preventable errors, says data from the third...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 25, December 23, 2008
Australian Health Minister John Della Bosca says that the government will require hospitals to...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 25, December 23, 2008
In the past year, medical mistakes have killed 28 patients in Victoria, Australia, according to the...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 51, December 17, 2008
The Joint Commission has released its latest Sentinel Event Alert, this time looking at prevention...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 24, December 9, 2008
After a four-year period in which 11 children were overdosed with a chemotherapy drug, the South...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 24, December 9, 2008
The House of Commons Health Committee received news that 40,000 patients die every year from...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 49, December 3, 2008
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has asked U.S. hospitals to look at their resident programs and...
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Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), Issue 12, December 1, 2008
When Minnesota’s hospitals outwardly recognized in 2007 that the state’s process for...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
A government-funded study published in the Scottish Medical Journal that reviewed case notes of 354...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
At High Prairie Health Complex, in northern Alberta, a handful of nurses have been injecting...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
The National Health Service’s National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is proposing a list of...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 23, November 25, 2008
According to a government report, nurses’ numerical errors are putting patients in danger...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 45, November 5, 2008
St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, NY is investigating the cause for seven newborn...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
By next year, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare will launch a...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
An Australian Medical Association survey of 1,000 doctors reveals that they work between 50 and 100...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 22, October 28, 2008
Scarborough Hospital, Canada's largest urban community hospital, has turned around its reputation...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 43, October 22, 2008
Although its price tag would likely be $11 billion, unique patient identifiers (UPI) would...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 21, October 14, 2008
Inspectors of National Health Service (NHS) Quality Improvement Scotland, which monitors Scottish...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 41, October 8, 2008
Doctors are more likely to admit errors that are obvious than those that are less obvious, reports...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 20, September 30, 2008
On October 3, 2008, Ontario hospitals will begin posting infection rates of Clostridium difficile...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 20, September 30, 2008
Auckland hospitals are short of patient beds, jeopardizing patient safety, reports the New Zealand...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 39, September 24, 2008
The state of Rhode Island suffered its eighth wrong site surgery within the past decade, when...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 19, September 16, 2008
Hospital leaders from the United States, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Kuwait are...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 19, September 16, 2008
Patients hospitalized during Toronto's SARS outbreak in 2003 did not suffer from the temporary...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 19, September 16, 2008
After a deadly outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which included 18 deaths and more...
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Patient Safety Monitor Alert, Issue 37, September 10, 2008
The liability of medical professionals may be broadened in a pending Massachusetts case, reports...
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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, Issue 18, September 2, 2008
Two annual reviews of hospitals in the Sydney West Area Health Service that claim 49 patients died...