The stakes are notably high in a medical negligence lawsuit alleging surgical error in an operation using a da Vinci robotic system. After a trial lasting more than a month, a 12-member jury in Washington State is weighing the evidence, and its verdict will be...
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FDA ups warnings on drug often prescribed for pregnant women
Birth injuries and medical malpractice claims associated with them often relate to clear errors made by one or more members of a hospital delivery team during childbirth. In the absence of such error and departure from the reasonable standard of care that is expected...
What is “Transvaginal Mesh” ?
By now, you've probably seen commercials on television warning about the dangers of something called "transvaginal mesh." And, if you're anything like the thousands of Americans who entered the question into their Google search bars this past year, you've probably...
Home births subject of pediatrics group newly issued guidelines
Wherever a baby is born in New Jersey or elsewhere, whether at the hospital, in a birthing center or at home pursuant to a planned delivery surrounded by family members, there is always a concern with birth injuries.Although the majority of babies in the United States...
Johns Hopkins: misdirected focus on cutting health care costs
It's the perennial dividing point and line drawn in the sand by advocates of tort reform who favor caps on medical malpractice damages.And it's wrong, says a Johns Hopkins research team that has examined a voluminous amount of data relating to malpractice payments...
Johns Hopkins study: diagnostic error frequent, deadly
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) was established in 1986 to serve as a repository for information relating to medical malpractice payments. The goal was and continues to be to identify the types and magnitude of medical error and enhance patient safety.A...
AMA Journal article says medical errors actually enrich hospitals
Here's a business model that would certainly seem to reward laxity and discourage innovation geared toward a higher level of accuracy and efficiency: Reward mistakes.And reward them with more money than is the case for delivering a better product.That sounds illogical...
Hospital disclosures highlight electronic records’ growing pains
The push across the medical industry in recent years that has focused upon supplanting paper records with electronic health records (EHRs), with New Jersey providers being no exception, has often been touted as revolutionary.The transformation, advocates routinely...
AARP and patient-advocacy group team up to spotlight best hospitals
The Leapfrog Group, with its very special and narrow focus, is an entity likely never heard of by most people in New Jersey and throughout the rest of the country.That unfamiliarity does not extend to hospital administrators, virtually all of whom know exactly what...
Computerized drug ordering systems: Effective, yet with problems
It takes a considerable amount of time for some medical studies to be fully evaluated following completion of research and material findings.Such is the case with a study on medication error published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics...
