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Tag: "error" at medical news

Medication Errors Affect Leukemia Treatment In Children

...ng infection. This study identified a 10 percent error rate in outpatient chemotherapy regimens for children with ALL. "It is possible that the efficacy of treatment regimens is reduced or toxicity increased because not all children are receiving the chemotherapeutic agents as indicated," said Dr. Taylor...

Adherence to Dietary Recommendations Measured

...n aid does appear to reduce the average estimation error for some larger portions of wedge-shaped foods. The researchers write that "substantial misestimation" by people using the adjustable wedge means "regardless of aid, some people have difficulty estimating portions of wedge-shaped foods." Still, the...

Revamping Of Healthcare System Required To Bring Down Preventable Medical Errors

...About 16.6 % of patients were experiencing medical error and 2.3 % killed or disabled due to medical errors. Denmark had the lowest rates, at 9 % and 0.4 % respectively. The article explained that these adverse events cannot be completely eliminated as it is human tendency to err but can be substantially r...

Circumcision to Avert HIV Infection

...ence. UNAIDS prevalence estimates have a margin of error of up to 30%.' Bertrand Auvert is the researcher who carried out the South African study last year. His acceptability studies in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda show that between 50% and 75% of uncircumcised men would choose to have themselves and t...

Negligence Cases in the Obstetrics Department Increases Fatality Rates

...cy (15 %) and general surgery (11%). Negligence or error resulted in about one third of the deaths. Negligence includes problems such as patients undergoing the wrong procedure or a wrong body part operated on or treated which eventually results in post-operative complications. AIHW spokeswoman Samantha Br...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...puter database. Hopkins researchers said ‘Human error rates are minimized by identifying, fixing and rep... & Safety in Healthcare. Miller emphasizes that error data are valuable only if consistently monitored for patterns and used to create safety checks that ...

Hospital Administers Animal Vaccine on Patients

...the authorities maintain that it was not a serious error because drugs for animals and humans come in similar packing. "The only difference between the vaccines for animals and human beings is that of dosage," said R.P. Kaushal, faculty member of the hospital's department of anaesthesia. The Madhya Pra...

Apex Consumer Court Rejects Rs 143 Cr Medical Negligence Claim

Observing that error of judgement of doctors while treating a rare disease does not amount to deficiency of service // , the National Consumer Commission today dismissed the medical negligence claim case to the tune of Rs 143.08 crore filed by a US-based doctor whose wif...

Brain Controlled Movements Are Studied Using Robotic- Joystick

...-tune fine movements. The requirement for time and error explains why repetition of simple movements day after day is used routinely in rehabilitating partially paralyzed stroke patients and those with other brain injuries. To test the need for time in mastering muscle control, the research team designed...

Children Need Different Dosage In Cardiac Arrest

...ency Medicine Annual Meeting, discussed the dosage error rates in a program called "LA Kids." In that program, paramedics were mandated to use a Broselow tape (a weight-estimating tool) and report weight-based color-codes to the base station. Additionally, base station personnel were taught to use a colo...

Better Communication Ensured Between Humans and Computers

...reme stress and prevent any life-threatening human error before it takes place. ...

Dispensing Drug Dosage To Children Through Computers

...cent of handwritten orders were incorrect, with an error rate of 45 errors per every 100 written orders. By... calculator-generated orders were correct, with an error rate of 6 per 100. The most frequent errors in handwritten orders were wrong dosage and wrong concen...

Video Games, The Latest Craze Of American Adults

...046 gamers, taking into consideration the sampling error as well. Most adults either use a computer, a playstation or a console such as Xbox. Surprisingly, minorities and young adults are more likely to indulge in video games. In the same group nearly 45% described themselves as an online gamer. The am...

Costly mistakes help better understand OCD: obsessive compulsive disorder

... responded in healthy individuals when we made the error count more. It appears to us so far that OCD patie...ng a greater penalty. An exaggerated perception of error is likely to be linked to the untoward anxiety about errors or failures and the associated compulsiv...

Money Matter Even To the Brain

... much more active when a person realizes making an error of some consequence. But it doesn’t show the same activity when the mistake is minor or doesn’t carry a penalty. The rACC is thought to be involved with emotional responses, and scientists had suspected it might also be involved in response to costly...

Scientists Explain Complex Darwinian Evolution

...al selection. "Our work demonstrates a fundamental error in the current challenges to Darwinism," said Thornton. "New techniques allowed us to see how ancient genes and their functions evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. We found that complexity evolved piecemeal through a process of Molecular Explo...

Brian Imaging Can Foretell Results Of Treating Depression

...for patients thus "bypassing the lengthy trial and error process that is often necessary to find the right treatment." Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers were able to identify areas of the brain that were active or inactive when exposed to a negative stimulus. While the procedu...

Healthy Kidney Removed From Patient, Second Surgery Needed

Medical error related to the removal of a healthy kidney from a cancer patient, in Scotland has raised resentment among the patient's family members //. Scottish National Party MSP, Alex Neil has urged the NHS Ayrshire and Arran to reveal the name of the involved ...

The Novel Cut and Splice Method Is Used To Recognize Different Microbes

...e to identify microbes are very time consuming and error prone. On the other hand sequencing entire genomes is labor intensive and costly. So scientists were looking out for new techniques that could identify key segments of genetic code that are short enough to be sequenced rapidly and can readily disting...

Women With Fewer Periods Have Low Risk Of Gynecological Cancer

...egress each month, which means a greater chance of error in the proliferation process of abnormal cells,' he says. In our society, girls menstruate earlier and women have more periods before giving birth. Women from traditional societies however breastfeed for extended times, often conceive soon after ...

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