Monthly Archives: August 2012

Emergency Room Medical Malpractice

A hospital emergency room is an area where medical errors are common and often overlooked. Because of the increasing patient load and the need to triage patients by order of medical urgency, many things often go clinically wrong in an … Continue reading

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Medical Negligence & The Joint Commission – List of Top 10 Sentinel Events

A Sentinel Event is defined by The Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious personal injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. … Continue reading

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Medical Negligence – A Cause of Nosocomial Infection

Hand-washing is widely recognized as the single most effective hospital practice to prevent nosocomial infections. The most common way infections are spread by hospital staff is cross-contamination –omission of washing hands between patients. Studies support doctors are the biggest offenders … Continue reading

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Honor Roll – Best Children’s Hospitals 2012-13

The 2012-13 Best Children’s Hospitals features 80 different hospitals that ranked among the top 50 in at least one of 10 specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology. … Continue reading

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The Honor Roll – Best Hospitals 2012-13

U.S. News published its annual report of the best hospitals for 2012-13. The list recognizes 17 medical centers, less than 0.4 percent of the 5,000 hospitals nationwide that excel across a broad spectrum of patient standard of care and standout as experts in … Continue reading

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