Becker's Hospital Review

42.7M Global Adverse Medical Events Major Source of Morbidity, Mortality, Study Finds

Adverse medical events are a major source of global morbidity and mortality, occurring in 10 percent of hospitalizations, according to a meta-study published in the British Medical Journal of Quality ...

Feds: ExThera Medical Corp. exec agrees to plead guilty to failing to report deaths to defraud FDA

An ExThera Medical Corp. executive has agreed to plead guilty to failing to report adverse events, including the deaths of two patients, with the intent to defraud or mislead the FDA, the U.S.
Becker's Hospital Review

ACA patient safety reforms reduce adverse events by 77k in New Jersey

Hospitals in New Jersey saved $641 million by reducing the number of adverse medical events in the state by 77,342 from 2012 through 2016, according to a report released by the New Jersey Hospital ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Considerable Proportion of Medical Device Adverse Events Reported Late

Overall, 71.0% of adverse events were reported within 30 days (on time), while 4.5 and 9.1% were reported between 31 and 180 days or after 180 days, respectively. HealthDay News — Although most ...
Regtechtimes on MSN

Cancer patients traveled to Antigua for treatment — now an executive faces charges for hiding fatal complications

A former California executive was charged today and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with failing to file adverse ...
Post-Bulletin

MDH reports slight increase in adverse health events at Minnesota's hospitals, surgical centers

ROCHESTER — The number of adverse health events reported in Minnesota's hospitals has increased slightly, the smallest increase since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Minnesota ...
UUHC Health Feed

How to Recover from Adverse Events

Health care workers face adverse events daily. These events include secondary trauma, occupational trauma, unexpected death or injury, moral injury, medical error and ...
Medscape

Adverse Events Reported in One Quarter of Inpatient Admissions

Nearly 25% of hospital admissions included at least one adverse event, as indicated from data from 2809 admissions at 11 hospitals. The 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS), which focused on ...
TCTMD

‘Sobering’ Adverse Event Rate With Evoque Seen in Real-world Use

The number of adverse events reported with the Evoque transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) system (Edwards Lifesciences) during the first year of commercial use should put operators on ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News

Adverse drug events more likely in older adults with comorbidities, study shows

Adverse drug events are more common in older people with comorbidities, a new study finds. Factors that are independently linked with adverse drug events are being female, taking more drugs daily, ...