Reviews were conducted by 3 board-certified Japanese physician- investigators specializing in internal medicine (1 chief investigator and 2 coinvestigators). The chief investigator trained the ...

Medical malpractice claims cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars, but the costs include more than just dollars. Often there is accompanying damage to a hospital’s reputation and to staff ...

For a fourth year in a row, Maryland recorded an increase in reported medical mistakes, including some that were fatal, the state’s Department of Health said in its annual patient safety report. The ...

Carle Health Methodist Hospital admitted in a court filing that the wrong sutures were used in a medical procedure that left a man in severe pain, according to a Chicago-based law firm representing ...

Medical malpractice refers to a healthcare provider’s failure to meet the accepted standard of care, resulting in harm to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Use of billing codes in big data sets to find diagnoses can result in up to two-thirds of cases being mistakenly identified, new UCLA-led research finds. Though the findings in this paper focused on ...

A Maryland Health Department report shows that preventable errors that caused patient deaths or severe disabilities rose for ...

Almost 56% of commercial driver medical exams showed medical history errors by either drivers or certified medical examiners, according to a recent study by the American Journal of Industrial Medicine ...

According to an article published in the National Library of Medicine, a study found that approximately 400,000 hospitalized individuals experience preventable harm every year. It also cited data from ...