Skilled Nursing Facility 5 – Claim Probe and Educate Review
The SNF 5-Claim Probe & Educate Review is the recently announced initiative by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services). Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) ...
Fatal Blood Clots from Medical Care: Pulmonary Embolus
Blood clots Louise, age 38, was scheduled to have a hysterectomy. Her doctor had decided to perform the surgery to eliminate the ...
Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Patient Surgery
“Oops. Doctor, I think we have the wrong patient here.” No one wants to hear those words. Wrong site surgery refers to operating on ...
Patient Identification: The Need to be 100% Accurate
Avoiding a Medical Disaster A nurse sees an elderly patient being pushed on a stretcher down the hall. Although she is not assigned to ...
Retained Objects After Surgery
Hazards of retained surgical instruments. Unintended retained foreign objects are the subject of a new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert issued October ...
Quality of Care: How Does Your Hospital Measure Up?
How to you find out about hospital quality of care? Attorneys who handle medical malpractice and personal injury cases soon develop an ...
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs): Deadly Complications
Healthcare providers are becoming very aware of the risks of urinary tract infections. These infections are often associated with a fever of greater than ...
Infections in Hospitals: Barriers to Prevention
These are 8 reasons why it is difficult to control infections in hospitals. All medical staff do not wash their hands when they should. ...
Top 12 Patient Fall Allegations
These are the most common allegations that nursing expert witnesses and plaintiff and defense attorneys should consider. The analysis of nursing liability after a ...
Is there Actual Government Interest in Medical Error?
There is little question that government interest in medical error is economic rather than benevolent for even the legislative language of medical malpractice reflects ...
Navigating the Slippery Legal Slope of Inpatient Falls
Falls are common causes of suits Inpatient falls and fall-related injuries continue to be the largest category of reported incidents in the ...
Plaintiff Winner: Dropped a Patient During Transfer
A delay in diagnosis of a fracture can result in significant pain and suffering. The sound of a body hitting the floor ...
Nonhealing Pressure Sores
Reasons for Nonhealing Wounds For patient wounds that do not have the ability to heal, the approach is different. These individuals with the inability ...
Never Events Within the Medical Malpractice Area
never events Within the medical malpractice area, lawsuits involving the never events are frequently won by plaintiffs. The liability/errors that resulted in ...
Plaintiff Winner: Wrong Patient/Wrong Site Surgery
Wrong site wrong patient surgery-inexcusable medical error Operate on the wrong patient or wrong side of the body? Unthinkable, you say? According ...
Litigation Related to Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
A wound vac Since the 1990s, wound care has taken a substantial leap forward. The new device was first marketed in the ...
New NJ Bill Mandates Reporting of Medical Errors
On August 31, 2009, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law an act requiring hospitals to publicly report 14 serious medical errors. One ...
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) on Phones
A new culprit has emerged in the spread of the tough-to-kill "superbug" bacteria and other infections in hospitals -- mobile phone headsets. Turkish researchers ...
