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  • Another Reason to have a Medication Chart


    Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority Authority: 471
    It never fails – it seems I find more information about a subject after I write a Funky Heart! post. As an example, here’s an item from KevinMD about medication mistakes in hospitals : Hospitalized patients were often clueless when asked about their medications, with almost all of them unable to name ...
    5 days ago

  • Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials [Book and Media Reviews]


    JAMA — Authority Authority: 443
    1 week ago

  • Contraindicated Medication Use in Dialysis Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [Original Contribution]


    JAMA — Authority Authority: 443
    Context  The US Food and Drug Administration guides clinicians through drug labeling of medications that are contraindicated or not recommended for use in specific patient groups. Little is known about the use of such medications and their effects on outcomes in clinical practice. Objective  To investigate the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Bad Doctor (2)


    MacDoctor — Authority Authority: 501
    Ron Paterson, the former Health and Disability Commissioner, is going to head up a research project into “the best practice on how the public can be confident any given medical practitioner is “a good doctor” “. While this sounds superficially like a worthy undertaking, you can be assured that the conclusions ...
    3 weeks ago


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    3 weeks ago

  • Spam Journalism #64


    MacDoctor — Authority Authority: 501
    Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. It was inevitable that the sentinel event report , designed to help hospitals improve systems, would be seized upon by journalists to score some easy sensational headlines. The Dom Post supplies us with this ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Hospital mistakenly amputates legs from toddler


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 732
    Johannesburg, Nov 30 (DPA) Staff at a Johannesburg hospital unnecessarily amputated the legs of a 2-year-old girl who had been admitted for treatment of burns on her hands, local authorities admitted.“The toddler … was admitted at Far East Rand Hospital and later transferred to Charlotte Maxeke Academic hospital ...
    4 weeks ago

  • When Should A Doctor Apologize?


    Better Health — Authority Authority: 547
    The movement for physicians to say “I’m sorry” when things go wrong in patient care has been under debate for the past few years. In the past, physicians were advised to never admit to a problem or to apologize for clinical errors with the thought that it would lead to more lawsuits. Saying “I’m sorry” ...
    4 weeks ago


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