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Tag: "error" at medical news

AIIMS Fined Rs 5 Lakhs for Negligence

...complainant was not proper. It is not a case of an error of judgment. It is a case of either negligence or incompetence of AIIMS doctors, as a result of which she underwent surgery and radio therapy," said State Consumer Commission president Justice J D Kapoor, holding the premier medical institute guilty ...

Hair Restoration Procedures Performed Worldwide Increased 34 Percent in 2006

... include any projected information. The margin of error for the sample is plus or minus 6.5% at the 95%confidence level....

First Gene Linked to Scoliosis Identified

...e gene's non-coding region, an indication that the error did not disrupt production of the CHD7 protein. The researchers speculate that this particular mutation alters the binding of a molecule that controls whether the gene is turned on. They think the gene is turned off more often than it should be, wh...

Computerized Doctors Order Reduce Prescription Errors

...g adult patients. However, the rate of one type of error prescribing the wrong drug did not decrease, and in five studies, the number of adverse events from drug errors did not decrease. Each year, more than one-half million patients sustain injuries or die in hospitals from adverse events, according to...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...s averaging $480 a month. The poll had a margin of error of 2.6 percentage points. Panfilova also said medical and pharmaceutical companies routinely bribe health officials so that hospitals buy their equipment and medicines, even though their quality is often not the best. Kirill Danishevsky, a health...

Motion Analysis Helps Teen With Cerebral Palsy Regain Ability to Walk

...asurements during motion analysis had a negligible error due to vibrations that occur in most buildings. The use of high resolution digital video cameras also helps obtain a highly accurate description of each patients movement patterns for both clinical and research applications. The air-bearing assembl...

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

...e-eclampsia, said: "There's lots of space for user error if the midwife doesn't carry out the blood pressure test very well, while urate analysis can give false negatives and false positive results." If the trials of this new test meet with success, it could lead to the development of simple home test ki...

Many Hours on Computer may Harm Eyes

...eople will have a focusing problem or a refractive error where simply wearing glasses while using the computer will take away those symptoms," he said. You should also take frequent short breaks, every half hour or so, Beebe and Weaver said. During those breaks, which can last just a minute or two, you s...

Many Hours on Computer may Harm Eyes

...eople will have a focusing problem or a refractive error where simply wearing glasses while using the computer will take away those symptoms," he said. You should also take frequent short breaks, every half hour or so, Beebe and Weaver said. During those breaks, which can last just a minute or two, you s...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...in the U.S. Assuming no sample bias, the margin of error for the sample of 451 UC patients is 5 percent; assuming no sample bias, the margin of error for a sample of 300 (the other surveys) is 6 percent....

Faulty Hormone Tests Compromised Healthcare Of Breast Cancer Patients

...ow, however, Eastern had indicated that the tests' error rate was as low as 10 percent. However, an affid...t in Newfoundland Supreme Court indicated that the error rate was significantly higher. Of 763 patients who tested negative, 317 had been given wrong resul...

Most Pediatric Chemotherapy Mistakes Reach Patients

... a comprehensive review of a nationwide medication error database of inpatient facilities and outpatient clinics to characterize the patterns of errors and their causes for children receiving chemotherapy. Between 1999 and 2004, 829,492 errors were reported, of which 29,802 involved patients under 18 years...

The Lethal Side of Human Error – Three Die After Consuming Inaccurately Weighed Dru

...is human they say but imagine when the cost of the error is three lives! Recently, the drug compounding com...n Texas, is in bad light following the irrevocable error committed by a worker while making the drug. ApotheCure Inc explained how a weighing error commit...

Retail Clinics Becoming Increasingly Popular in US

... thank-you notes. While there is always room for error in diagnosing illness, clinic operators say there is little that can go wrong. Nurse practitioners have at least six years of schooling and use proprietary software that helps them examine and question patients. If clinics cannot treat someone beca...

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

...ctor's behavior often plays a bigger role than the error itself in patients' decisions to sue. The softer approach has now begun to appear in some medical school courses too. It is drawing interest as national attention has turned to reducing both medical errors and the high cost of malpractice insurance...

Juvenile Onset Myopia may Be Due to Parental Refractive Error

...ents. "This study shows that parental refractive error should now be added to the constellation of factors which are related to the progression of juvenile onset myopia," said researcher Dan Kurtz of the New England College of Optometry. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

GM Rice to Tackle Diarrhea

... sees. But bad weather such as high winds or human error could lead to such a mix up and consequent complications, some activists warn. The US public could submit their objections to the whole project before the end of March. Any decision to grant final approval would be taken only subsequently....

HIV Positive Organs Transplanted

... patient were transplanted to three patients. This error of a gigantic// proportion occurred in Careggi hospital in Florence. Kidneys and liver from a 41 year old dead woman infected with AIDS were donated to three patients. The hospital authorities term this as a ‘tragic human error’. According to the d...

Learning to Prevent Medical Mistakes in Caring for Stroke Patients

... need to be modified to reduce the likelihood// of error and patients getting hurt, according to a study. ...tudy, 18 were near misses, which are defined as an error that does not reach the patient, and 183 were adverse events. Of the 183 adverse events, 86 were p...

Erroneous Laboratory Operation May Lead To a Cancer Drug

An error in the laboratory may pave way to the discovery of...r was being tested. Schaefer realized that a small error in her laboratory calculation resulted in the death of the cancer cells. She also found that PPAR-...

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