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Each year, hospital emergency rooms across the United States see roughly 7,000 children injured because of medication errors, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. However, many senior citizens and other adults in New Mexico and around the country also...
Although patients in New Mexico and throughout the United States may feel that it is important to be assertive during medical appointments, those who demonstrate difficult behaviors could be more at risk of medical errors such as a misdiagnosis. Recent research...
As of 2016, hospital medicine as a specialty has existed for only two decades. Despite board certification for the discipline not occurring until 2009, New Mexico patients might be surprised that hospitalists have significantly grown in number across the country over...
It has been believed by many individuals in the medical community that medication errors could be reduced in hospitals by employing new technology. However, while this appears to be true, it seems that errors that occur when intravenous medications are administered...
New Mexico residents who have sustained traumatic brain injuries may be interested to learn that Texas researchers believe they have gained insights into how TBIs impact chronic sufferers. Their study revealed that six or more months following an injury, patients may...
According to a study conducted by Massachusetts researchers, parents in New Mexico and around the U.S. might be likely to catch errors on their children that have been missed by doctors. The study was published in JAMA Pediatrics and examined data on almost 400...
Based on the results of multiple studies, researchers have found that nurses in New Mexico and elsewhere could benefit from an automatic dispensing cabinet to help cut down on patient medication errors. Nurses are often distracted while preparing medication, and this...
New Mexico patients may have access to a better diagnostic method for tuberculosis in the future. At Stanford University School of Medicine, researchers have developed a blood test that identifies tuberculosis in children with a positive result accuracy of 86 percent....
Women in New Mexico who have anxiety might also suffer from undiagnosed heart disease based on a study published on Feb. 23 in an online medical journal. The symptoms of the two are similar and include shortness of breath, palpitations and fatigue. Women are more...
Patients in New Mexico hospitals and hospitals throughout the country may be safer if the nurse in charge of their care has fewer patients to care for. According to a study published in BMJ Open, the staffing levels for nurses should be no more than four patients per...