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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 27 2015, @07:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the added-surgical-risk dept.

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.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-25/health-medication-errors-happen-in-half-of-all-surgeries

[Also Covered By]: http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/medication-errors-occur-half-surgeries-mgh-study-finds/2015-10-26


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday October 27 2015, @11:22PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday October 27 2015, @11:22PM (#255333) Journal

    See column 2 of page 8 of the PDF linked to the Anesthesiology link in TFS.

    It lists some items that may affect the outcome. Also be aware, no patients died or were seriously injured as a result of discoveries in this study.

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