By Joe Messa
Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys report the results of a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine. According to Harvard researchers, the five most common infections that patients acquire after hospitalization cost the U.S. health care system almost $10 billion a year. In addition to being very costly, the infections are also dangerous posing additional injuries, sometimes […]
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Following a recent site inspection at The Compounding Shop in St. Petersburg, Fla., the Food and Drug Administration is telling health care providers, hospital supply managers, and pharmacists not to use drugs produced at and distributed from this site. The FDA says that preliminary findings from the inspection raise concerns about a potential lack of […]
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Medical malpractice attorneys, as well as many nurses, have long declared that understaffing can lead to increased incidents of patient harm. Now, a University of Pennsylvania study published by American Journal of Infection Control is backing that assertion. The study also points to poor work environments including lack of teamwork and support from the top […]
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A New York hospital has changed its procedures for discharging a patient after failing to properly treat a 12-year-old boy who was seen in their emergency room in April and died three days later. Rory Staunton was sent to NYU Langone Medical Center by his pediatrician to receive fluids for dehydration. Hospital staff ran lab […]
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