A new study published in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management found that analyzing hospital administrative data can provide useful population-level descriptions of patient safety data. The study, ...

Despite decades of calls for more attention to patient safety in hospitals, people undergoing surgery still have high rates of complications and medical errors, a new study finds. More than a third of ...

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It was a busy night in the ER and the patient with strep throat was the least of the doctor’s worries–until the patient developed anaphylaxis. In her haste to treat the patient, the doctor gave a ...

At least 61 of the made-up case reports were unwittingly cited in other peer-reviewed medical journals, creating hundreds more errors. Reading time 3 minutes A journal focused on child health and ...

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...

A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot. By Gina Kolata Dr. Adam Rodman, an expert in internal medicine ...