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About half of all surgeries involve some kind of medication error or unintended drug side effects, if a new study done at one of America’s most prestigious academic medical centers is any indication.
The rate, calculated by researchers from the anesthesiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital who observed 277 procedures there, is startlingly high compared with those in the few earlier studies. Those earlier studies relied mostly on self-reported data from clinicians, rather than directly watching operations, and found errors to be exceedingly rare.
“There is a substantial potential for medication-related harm and a number of opportunities to improve safety,” according to the new study, published today in the journal Anesthesiology . More than one-third of the observed errors led to some kind of harm to the patient.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday October 27 2015, @11:17PM
I haven't dug through all the inter-twined associations, but a cursory glance at the paper suggests very little about Harvard, other than the hospital is a teaching hospital for Harvard.
The University probably exercises little in the way of control over papers published by hospital people.
The money came from Doctors Company Foundation, the nation’s largest insurer of medical professional liability for physicians, surgeons, and other health professionals. Sounds like they would have an interest in this subject.
If anything, Harvard was along for the ride, and never got even direct reference.
I don't believe Harvard IS involved in publishing this at all.
Its far more likely Insurance Companies are looking to enforce standards and cut mal-practice payments.
This work was supported by grants from the Doctors
Company Foundation (Napa, California) and the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences (Bethesda, Maryland)
of the National Institutes of Health (Award Number
T32GM007592). The content is solely the responsibility of
the authors and does not necessarily represent the official
views of the Doctors Company Foundation or the National
Institutes of Health. Neither the Doctors Company Foundation
nor the National Institutes of Health had any role in the
design and conduct of the study; collection, management,
analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation,
review, or approval of the manuscript.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.