What Doctors Don't Tell YouAs much as 10 per cent of patients entering hospital will experience preventable "adverse events", according to a study of two UK hospitals. ...
Hospitals need to introduce better monitoring of the treatment of children in intensive care, according to a six month study of 96 patients at the Royal Brompton Hospital (BMJ, 5 June 1993). ...
Drugs that are not specifically made for children (unlicensed) or prescribed outside the terms of the product licence (off label) are regularly being given to children in paediatric wards of Brit ...
More than 1,300 patients in a New Zealand hospital are being recalled after fears that endoscopic investigations may have left them with serious infections. ...
The standard practice in maternity units of examining a newborn baby twice is a waste of resources and should be stopped. One examination is sufficient to detect any abnormalities, researchers hav ...
Most interventions during labour and birth are either unnecessary or downright harmful to mother and baby, according to a report presented at a recent Department of Health conference. ...
The hospital routine of giving patients the drug heparin as a just in case precaution against fatal pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) is of no benefit, researchers have discovered. ...
Your chances of dying in hospital, or suffering some injury while there, stand at around 16 per cent. Half this risk is due to doctor or hospital error which means that 8 per cent of hospital pati ...
Small or blunt tipped needles used for lumbar punctures are less likely to cause headaches afterwards yet few hospitals seem to use them, a study has found. ...
Women giving birth while being helped by midwives instead of consultants are more likely to have a natural delivery. ...
