Report: Hospital put patients at risk
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A hospital put three children, including Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, in danger by giving them overdoses of a blood thinner, California regulators said Wednesday.
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Hospitals should be fined if they harm patients, the government's chief medical officer has proposed.
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Contradicting a previous study, Dutch researchers claim that using a cell phone near hospital equipment is potentially dangerous to patients.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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The financial pressures associated with cancer can have dire consequences for patients, a survey finds.
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Patients aren't the only ones harmed by medical errors, according to a survey released Wednesday that found many doctors who make mistakes &#151; and even those who come close &#151; suffer stress, sleep problems and loss of confidence.
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Hospital practices are more to blame than how sick a person is for infections acquired by hospital patients, researchers reported on Monday, urging medical centers to do more to curb these infections.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. A hospital in Redwood City is warning more than two thousand people that they may have been exposed to hepatitis while they were in the hospital for tests.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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We're all guilty of using our cell phones in off-limits areas. But a new study shows that in hospitals they can be hazardous to medical equipment
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Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a long-standing concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released on Tuesday.
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One in eight hospital patients can expect to be adversely affected by their hospital treatment, Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) members were told yesterday.
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Hospitals could be putting patients' lives at risk by sending consultants' letters which need transcribing to India, a group warns.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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Nearly all doctors, nurses and managers think their hospitals need to be made safer for patients, a poll suggests.
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Calgary - A mistake that led to the death of a 69-year-old man after he was given the wrong medication could have happened at any hospital, an independent report into the error concluded.