Sentences with phrase «wrong patient errors»
Researchers created clinical scenarios related to four common pitfalls of EDIS use in emergency departments: communication failure, poor data display, wrong order / wrong patient errors and alert fatigue.
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Medication Errors When patients are given the wrong medication or the wrong dosage of a certain medicine, it can do more harm than good.
Although advances in medical technology have vastly improved the way in which anesthesia is administered, patients can still suffer harm as a result of anesthesia errors, whether from receiving too much or insufficient anesthesia, or the wrong type of anesthesia altogether.
Surgical errors - We have represented clients whose doctors operated on the wrong body part or left a medical tool in the patient after surgery.
A prescription error may occur because a patient is misdiagnosed, because a pharmacist can not read a doctor's handwriting on a prescription slip, because a doctor writes down the wrong medication, or because any medical professional involved in the prescription drug process does anything that constitutes substandard care or medical treatment.
Medication errors frequently happen when a doctor prescribes the wrong medication for a patient's health situation.
Nurses may make mistakes in administering medications to patients; pharmacists may make errors filling prescriptions; doctors may misdiagnose a condition and prescribe the wrong medication or there may be a communication error with a pharmacy.
And I have also seen many many scary medication errors, wrong labwork ordered, incorrect imaging results given to patients, pathology reports wrongly interrupted to the patient, and injections given incorrectly and with wrong dosages, BY THE SAINTLY AND PERFECT REGISTERED NURSE!!!