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Gabapentin Under Scrutiny: 2025 Data Challenged Risk Profile
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Gabapentin Under Scrutiny: 2025 Data Challenged Risk Profile
New research questioned old assumptions
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/painmanagement/119247
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How Kaiser Permanente Created a Virtual Cancer Expert Review Program | NEJM Catalyst
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How Kaiser Permanente Created a Virtual Cancer Expert Review Program
Kaiser Permanente uses a shared electronic health record to leverage access to cancer subspecialists across all its regions.
https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.24.0186
11 days ago
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This super bug is spreading across half the US
The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in nursing homes and hospitals
https://share.google/03A7meyRmJuycA9ZP
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Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening
This randomized clinical trial examines whether risk-based screening is a safe and effective alternative to annual mammography for detecting breast cancer in women 40 years and older.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2842903?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=123025
12 days ago
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1% of New Mexico doctors responsible for half of $68 million in malpractice payments in state
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1% of New Mexico doctors responsible for half of $68 million in malpractice payments in state
Critics debate whether medical board oversight or legal reform is needed.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/a-small-minority-of-doctors-account-for-most-malpractice-payments/2948149
12 days ago
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American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
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FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, GAO Report Says
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FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, GAO Report Says
Agency is so poorly staffed that it's sometimes unable to make sure companies protect patients
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/fdageneral/119035
26 days ago
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(29) Subglottic Secretion Drainage: The Overlooked Linchpin in VAP Prevention (Article Review) | LinkedIn
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Subglottic Secretion Drainage: The Overlooked Linchpin in VAP Prevention (Article Review)
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has shadowed critical care for decades; costly, persistent, and often fatal. We have refined our bundles, elevated our standards, and educated frontline teams, ye...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/subglottic-secretion-drainage-overlooked-linchpin-vap-kevin-rivera-uydne/?trackingId=tPlhWBhCQq%2BqyKMy8qWpEQ%3D%3D
28 days ago
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Kentucky Lantern
29 days ago
UPDATED National Board of Examiners in Optometry "continues to be very concerned about the serious weakening of public protection in Kentucky."
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Kentucky optometrist board meets in private but takes no action as groups question patient safety • Kentucky Lantern
The Kentucky board that licenses and regulates optometrists met Friday amid growing controversy about waivers it granted some candidates in recent years who hadn’t met all requirements for licensure. ...
https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/12/kentucky-optometrist-board-meets-in-private-but-takes-no-action-as-groups-question-patient-safety/
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Why Hospitals Cannot Claim High Reliability if EVS Is Not High Reliability | Infection Control Today
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Why Hospitals Cannot Claim High Reliability if EVS Is Not High Reliability | Infection Control Today
Hospitals often champion high-reliability principles, yet overlook one of their most risk-sensitive disciplines: environmental services. EVS operates in clinical environments where a single missed ste...
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/why-hospitals-cannot-claim-high-reliability-evs-is-not-high-reliability
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Embedding Martha's Rule into practice—Lessons from the national pilot
This blog outlines Royal Manchester Children's Hospital's (RMCH) efforts over the past year to integrate Martha’s Rule into everyday clinical practice
https://www.pslhub.org/learn/improving-patient-safety/improving-systems-of-care/quality-improvement/embedding-marthas-rule-into-practice%E2%80%94lessons-from-the-national-pilot-r13586/
29 days ago
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Mom Who Was Turned Away While in Labor Back in Hospital, Family Says
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Mom Who Was Turned Away While in Active Labor Back in Hospital with Post-Birth Health Issues, Family Says
The mom who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from an Indiana hospital has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues.
https://people.com/mom-who-was-turned-away-while-in-labor-back-in-hospital-family-says-11857160?hid=940b91b583ba4994b635b754fb0ccf1c46d2e02c&did=20587985-20251126&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-news-alert_newsletter&utm_content=112625&lctg=940b91b583ba4994b635b754fb0ccf1c46d2e02c&lr_input=8741ec1ba9388eb8aea8b4e09b4378d5bd0f474f97e0b7eb5f73afe117396704&campaign=15821187
about 2 months ago
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Reason Magazine
about 2 months ago
An extensive network of automatic license plate readers is being used to develop predictive intelligence to stop vehicles, violating Americans’ rights.
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Mass surveillance is powering a new era of pretextual traffic stops
An extensive network of automatic license plate readers is being used to develop predictive intelligence to stop vehicles, violating Americans’ rights.
https://reason.com/2025/11/24/mass-surveillance-is-powering-a-new-era-of-pretextual-traffic-stops/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_campaign=reason_brand
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More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.
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What to Know About Teen Sexual Development and S.S.R.I.s
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/magazine/what-to-know-teen-sexual-development-ssris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.bmLE.lWb7UxI6qG5P&smid=bs-share
about 2 months ago
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The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
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The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-many-problems-with-the-fdas-big-menopause-announcement/
about 2 months ago
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The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate
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The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/electronic-fetal-monitoring-c-sections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.aCfk.wj2oEkz6_lH7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Parental involvement in paediatric patient safety incidents in general practice: a cross-sectional study
Background Children are a vulnerable patient group at risk of healthcare-associated harms, relying on others to support their healthcare needs. Parents, guardians, and caregivers may play a key role i...
https://bjgp.org/content/75/758/e607
3 months ago
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“Listening Neglect”: How Families Feel Unheard | AAP Journal Blogs | American Academy of Pediatrics
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“Listening Neglect”: How Families Feel Unheard
Editor’s Note: Danielle Gerber is the mother of a child with medical complexity and a Family Engagement Specialist for the Waisman Center and the Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care at the ...
https://publications.aap.org/journal-blogs/blog/33139/Listening-Neglect-How-Families-Feel-Unheard?autologincheck=redirected
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Too Rare to Matter? How Insurers Fail Millions with ‘Uncommon’ Diseases
Balin Weintraub, 17, details the challenges of living with the rare disease FAVA while showing the strength and optimism of rare disease families.
https://open.substack.com/pub/healthcareuncovered/p/too-rare-to-matter-how-insurers-fail?r=zou3&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Doctors and nurses are punched, choked, even shot. States want to stop that.
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Doctors and nurses are punched, choked, even shot. States want to stop that. • Stateline
Health care workers make up just 10% of the American workforce but experience 48% of the nonfatal injuries from workplace violence, according to federal data. And the threat is increasing.
https://stateline.org/2025/10/01/doctors-and-nurses-are-punched-attacked-even-shot-states-want-to-stop-that/
3 months ago
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A path to better include patients’ perspectives in the regulation of medicines | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
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A path to better include patients’ perspectives in the regulation of medicines | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Reflection paper on patient experience data for public consultation until 31 January 2026
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/path-better-include-patients-perspectives-regulation-medicines
3 months ago
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What happens when private equity buys a hospital? - The Boston Globe
A new study has unveiled the latest consequence of private-equity ownership on a hospital — more patient deaths in the emergency room.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/business/private-equity-hospitals/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
3 months ago
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The Patient Safety Organization Program: Key Barriers Impeding Nationwide Progress Toward Reducing Patient Harm in Hospitals | Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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The Patient Safety Organization Program: Key Barriers Impeding Nationwide Progress Toward Reducing Patient Harm in Hospitals
https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2025/the-patient-safety-organization-program-key-barriers-impeding-nationwide-progress-toward-reducing-patient-harm-in-hospitals/
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What happens when private equity buys a hospital? - The Boston Globe
A new study has unveiled the latest consequence of private-equity ownership on a hospital — more patient deaths in the emergency room.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/business/private-equity-hospitals/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
4 months ago
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More Charged in Massive Nursing Scam
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More Charged in Massive Nursing Scam
In 'Operation Nightingale,' ex-nursing school staff sold fake diplomas, reaped millions, DOJ says
https://www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/117565
4 months ago
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Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test
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Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test
A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/hospital-acquired-infection-reporting-healthcare-dirty-little-secret/
4 months ago
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U.S. organ transplants corrupted by greed and bias, whistleblower says - The Washington Post
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Whistleblower says U.S. organ transplants corrupted by greed and bias
A whistleblower says he has documented evidence of practices that risked patient safety and show bias in the U.S. organ transplant system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/17/kidney-transplant-organs-waiting-list/
4 months ago
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'Kissing bug' disease now considered endemic in the US
YouTube video by CNN
https://youtu.be/lqjpWbxgUps
4 months ago
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Study finds 10% of pediatric blood cancers may stem from medical imaging radiation
A study led by UC San Francisco and UC Davis has concluded that radiation from medical imaging is associated with a higher risk of blood cancers in children.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-pediatric-blood-cancers-stem-medical.html
4 months ago
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Public Perception of Med Harm 2025 — Oregon Patient Safety Commission
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Public Perception of Med Harm 2025 — Oregon Patient Safety Commission
https://oregonpatientsafety.org/public-perception-med-harm-2025?fbclid=IwY2xjawM6wKpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqumKBqCxa3WCZ2uzzuNlvEW6k3OmrBPIOB6ESdg9iEBnrYyCS8x-RwfzlfE_aem_LlL3aQErXsnSPvOZl2ue0w
4 months ago
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MyChart Rewrites The Rules, Patients Lose Their Rights
Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data.
https://www.levernews.com/mychart-rewrites-the-rules-patients-lose-their-rights/
4 months ago
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101 West: Who's caring for our health? -
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4 months ago
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Child dies after receiving new experimental gene therapy | STAT
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Child dies after receiving new experimental gene therapy
The first child to receive a new experimental gene therapy for a rare neurological disorder died a few days after dosing, the company sponsoring the trial said.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/child-dies-after-receiving-new-experimental-gene-therapy/?&utm_campaign=stat_plus_today&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8KA-4fm1ZGqZ54WSH2ty6Q4t7FuuAhTFm7BBUX62sdXsMv_zDUxKzJTcOwkM9WrAA9ezcDVMimyqLZ0kIODIkT2Zpt-w&_hsmi=380179796&utm_content=380179796&utm_source=hs_email
4 months ago
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Robotic Surgery Does Not Reduce Postoperative Pain Compared With Manual Surgery
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Robotic Surgery Does Not Reduce Postoperative Pain Compared With Manual Surgery
Robotic-assisted surgeries for unicondylar knee arthroplasty did not decrease postoperative pain or opioid use compared with manual surgery.<br /><br />
https://www.anesthesiologynews.com/Online-First/Article/07-25/Robotic-Surgery-Does-Not-Reduce-Postoperative-Pain-Compared-With-Manual-Surgery/77797?sub=B870531044A5EEA132B58D88989277B22BC11D37E59E138634D6EDB8A5651D12&tken=8741EC1BA9388EB8AEA8B4E09B4378D5BDF474F97E0B7EB5F73AFE11739674&enl=true&dgid=X3612589&utm_source=enl&utm_campaign=20250908&utm_content=2&pos=2&utm_medium=button
4 months ago
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Martha’s rule now in operation at every acute hospital in England | Hospitals | The Guardian
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Martha’s rule now in operation at every acute hospital in England
Family, marking what would have been Martha’s 18th birthday, welcomes adoption of system that gives patients right to request care review
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/04/marthas-rule-now-in-operation-at-every-acute-hospital-in-england
4 months ago
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A Tale of Two Genetic Conditions: Mortality Diverges in Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell
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A Tale of Two Genetic Conditions: Mortality Diverges in Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell
Trends 'offer a powerful lens' on structural factors' impact
https://www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/generalpulmonary/117357
4 months ago
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Candida auris outbreak in Texas hospitals
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Hospitals in Texas see a rise in drug-resistant fungus
A drug-resistant fungus is spreading rapidly through Texas hospitals, posing significant risks to vulnerable patients in long-term care facilities and those with compromised immune systems.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/hospitals-in-texas-see-a-rise-in-drug-resistant-fungus
4 months ago
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Martha's rule rolled out to all acute hospitals in England
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Martha's rule rolled out to all acute hospitals in England
Hundreds of patients have been helped by rule, which makes it easier to get an urgent second opinion.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e1zw28766o
4 months ago
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States band together to issue public health guidance after ‘destruction’ of the CDC
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4 months ago
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National Academies report outlines ways Trump administration could simplify research regulations
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National Academies report outlines ways Trump administration could simplify research regulations
A National Academies report lays out 53 ways policymakers could simplify research regulations on topics including clinical research and scientific misconduct.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/national-academies-report-outlines-ways-to-simplify-research-regulations/
4 months ago
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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community - Ars Technica
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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=Ars_Orbital_090325&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9e1e324c17c6adf66fb0b&cndid=24459382&hasha=55ecb833198b74477622a9f7181ba9a2&hashb=65bd160814d66d9e5b59b02e7458b862d552ff84&hashc=8741ec1ba9388eb8aea8b4e09b4378d5bd0f474f97e0b7eb5f73afe117396704&esrc=bx_multi1st_dailyent&utm_content=Final&utm_term=ARS_OrbitalTransmission
4 months ago
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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy
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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy (Gift Article)
Medicine is now the nation’s largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/03/business/economy/healthcare-jobs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.4R6O.3_41suQrTMv8&smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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Success for the single patient record depends on citizens and patients owning their data | Richard Smith's non-medical blogs
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Success for the single patient record depends on citizens and patients owning their data
Seventeen years ago I met Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a Cambridge medical graduate with programming skills and a genetic condition, and he described his vision of every citizen and patient having access t…
https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/success-for-the-single-patient-record-depends-on-citizens-and-patients-owning-their-data/
4 months ago
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Michael Millenson: AI will transform the doctor-patient relationship | STAT
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Medicine’s AI era urgently demands new doctor-patient relationship
The magnitude of disruption accompanying AI and data democratization is something most doctors still can’t see.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/ai-medicine-radical-transparency-collaborative-health/
5 months ago
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Appendicitis: common and commonly missed – the story of Alice Tapper, by Antonio Dajer and Andrew Olson
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Appendicitis: common and commonly missed – the story of Alice Tapper
Objectives The misdiagnosis of appendicitis remains frequent. Better understanding of its clinical evolution over time would decrease the incidence of misdiagnosis. Case Presentation At the Society to...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/dx-2023-0142/html
5 months ago
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‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic-resistant disease | Gaza | The Guardian
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‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic-resistant disease
Fatal infections more likely due to malnutrition, injuries and lack of medical facilities under Israel’s blockade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/gaza-antibiotic-resistant-disease?utm_term=689c114590677a6c3f6fdd847a373a10&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
5 months ago
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Diagnostic Errors in Emergency Departments | Coverys
Address diagnostic errors in emergency care with Coverys. ✓ Discover strategies to enhance accuracy and reduce risks in high-pressure settings today.
https://www.coverys.com/expert-insights/hidden-in-plain-sight-diagnostic-error-emergency-department
5 months ago
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Coverys Report Reveals Diagnostic Errors Occur Most Frequently in Office-Based Care
https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20250812111216/coverys-report-reveals-diagnostic-errors-occur-most-frequently-in-office-based-care
5 months ago
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Hospitals Reported Few Captured Patient Harm Events to CMS and States | Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Hospitals Reported Few Captured Patient Harm Events to CMS and States
https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2025/hospitals-reported-few-captured-patient-harm-events-to-cms-and-states/
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Hospitals Did Not Capture Half of Patient Harm Events, Limiting Information Needed to Make Care Safer | Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Hospitals Did Not Capture Half of Patient Harm Events, Limiting Information Needed to Make Care Safer
https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2025/hospitals-did-not-capture-half-of-patient-harm-events-limiting-information-needed-to-make-care-safer/
5 months ago
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