VA Medical Center Surgery Errors Declining: Study
Although thousands of veterans were told in 2009 that they may have been exposed to infected blood and or treated by a “rogue” cancer unit that was using radiation treatment…
Tag Archives: Wrong Site Surgery
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Three Surgical Mistakes Have Occurred At One Boston Hospital Since Sept.
Federal and state health investigators have cited a Boston teaching hospital for making at least three surgical mistakes in the last four months of 2010.
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Operating Room Deaths Decreased by Checklists: Study
European researchers say that the use of extensive hospital checklists could result in a 31 percent decline in patient complications from surgical mistakes.
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Wrong-Patient, Wrong-Site Surgery Mistakes Disturbingly Frequent: Study
Preventable surgical mistakes where the surgeon operates on the wrong person or the wrong part of the body, account for half of one percent of all operating room errors, or…
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California Hospital Mistakes Result in Fines for Nine Facilities
Nine California hospitals have been fined more than half a million dollars collectively for medical mistakes, including wrong site surgeries, leaving medical equipment in patients and medication errors, which are…
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Hospital Wrong Site Surgery Problems Results in Fine for Safety Violations
Rhode Island Hospital has to pay $150,000 in state fines and is required to install new monitoring equipment in operating rooms following a violation of safety policies that resulted in…
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Rhode Island Hospital Performed Surgery Wrong Body Part for Fifth Time
The Rhode Island Department of Health is investigating Rhode Island Hospital in Providence after the hospital admitted to operating on the wrong body part for another patient, marking at least…
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Wrong Site Surgery Lawsuit Filed Over Operation on Wrong Knee
An orthopedic surgery lawsuit has been filed over medical mistakes at a Chicago-area hospital where doctors operated on the wrong knee, causing permanent injury for the plaintiff.
