When the medical community makes mistakes, it’s like shooting down a few hundred airplanes every year. That’s a dramatic metaphor...
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Two recent research papers both point to the significance of diagnostic errors as a source of medical malpractice claims. A...
A new survey has found that nearly 62,000 medical errors in Massachusetts in one year cost about $617 million for...
The epidemic of physician burnout may be the source of even more medical errors than unsafe medical workplace conditions, a...
U.S. health officials on Tuesday proposed steps to improve the government’s system for overseeing medical devices, which has been criticized...
Medical errors in U.S. hospitals kill tens of thousands of patients each year, and even more suffer injury because of...
Death claims are the most common hospital liability claims, according to an insurance company study released after researchers at Johns...
Medical errors in the U.S. account for more than 250,000 deaths per year, which makes them the third leading cause...
New Hampshire hospitals are making progress in reducing both errors and unnecessary readmissions, according to new federal data. The federal...
A federal review of hospital medical records and other data has found a 17 percent decline in infections, drug mistakes,...