What is Considered a Misdiagnosis and When is it Malpractice?

When mistakes like misdiagnosis are made in healthcare, the consequences are immense. There are over 700,000 deaths in hospitals every year, and medical misdiagnosis is one of the leading causes. These incidents lead to 371,000 deaths and 424,000 permanent disabilities every year, and those are just the confirmed cases.  What is considered a misdiagnosis, and…

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Birth Control Pills Recalled Amid Faulty Packaging

An American drug manufacturer recently issued a nationwide recall for its birth control product, fearing that misplaced capsules in its pill packages could result in unintended pregnancies. The packages should have contained 24 capsules with hormones, followed by four placebo capsules – but that sequence was mistakenly reversed during packaging. The order of the pills…

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Automated System to Prevent Medication Errors

The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has published a new study by researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) where they designed and tested an automatic system to detect medication administration errors (MAEs). A medication administration error is a discrepancy between the medication the prescriber intended and what the patient receives.…

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