In a recent US survey, over 40 per cent of people said they or their families had been the victim of medical errors - as did 35 per cent of doctors (N Engl J Med, 2002; 347: 1933-40).
Tracking down the exact prevalence of medical errors is a difficult task as many incidents go unreported. However, what estimates are available descri...
A new survey shows that US physicians do not believe that the problem of medical errors is as significant as the 1999 report by the Institute of Medic...
A phrase that includes something about stable doors and bolting horses comes to mind as we read that the UK is launching the world's first system to c...
The COX (cyclooxygenase)-2 inhibitors, also known as ‘selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs’ (NSAIDs), have long been touted as being safer...
When we think of pneumonia, we see it as a complicated and dangerous infection caused by bugs ‘in the air’. But there are a number of disparate, but c...
US doctors don't seem to be passing on the good news about breast conserving surgery to their patients even though they're required to do so by state...
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