Studies examine physician disclosure of medical errors
...xpected, hospitals and clinics need to be aware of mistakes in order to improve patient safety, and sharing on...ns deserve support. Even the best doctors may make mistakes for reasons that are hard to understand -- we all have strange moments when we have lapses. However,...Medication errors affect children's leukemia treatment
... not well-studied, particularly in children. These mistakes can occur in prescribing by physicians, during int...administered by patients or their caregivers. Most mistakes among outpatients are caught before drugs are given to patients, and because most drugs have wide sa...Don't rely on cold reason - trust your intuition as well
...ations. Transparency is the key, particularly when mistakes have been made." How people handle uncertainties in relation to topics including unemployment, pensions, GM foods, health care and nuclear power is the subject of an event to be held at the University of East Anglia on September 7th. Researchers ...'Tribbles' protein implicated in common and aggressive form of leukemia
...ion; however, data from the Pear lab suggests that mistakes in the expression of the Tribbles gene may lead to degradation of proteins that hold cancer in check, such as tumor suppressors. "One of our current challenges is to determine what other proteins Tribbles degrades to cause leukemia," says Pear. The...Drug labels are prescriptions for mistakes
...racy field. Most of the research has looked at the mistakes of healthcare providers. In looking at patients, we found it was common for them to make mistakes when dosing medicine for themselves, their elderly parents, or their children. Despite a degree in...$2.9M NIH grant expands successful parenting education program of Rush University
...earn when you see parents like you making the same mistakes you do," said Gross. A follow-up assessment of CPP participants found significant long-term decreases in child behavior problems and increases in parents' confidence. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota now is implementing the program. Gross als...Athlete's 'rituals' important for overcoming performance anxiety
...placed by positive thoughts, relaxation occurs and mistakes are minimized." According to Cox, who just publ...ormance task can be repeated hundreds of times yet mistakes are still made. Well planned and practiced performance routines can minimize these errors. Dallas Co...Fixed versus growth intelligence mindsets: Its all in your head, Dweck says
...eady do well and avoid ones on which they may make mistakes and not look smart. In contrast, she said, people who believe in an "expandable" or "growth" theory of intelligence want to challenge themselves to increase their abilities, even if they fail at first. Dweck's research about intelligence and motiva...Decision making by the growing elderly population is uncharted territory
...cision-making, Peters said. "Older people who make mistakes have less time and less physical resiliency to compensate for bad decisions than do younger people," she said. "Older people are more vulnerable. We may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but the old dog may have lots and lots of old tricks ...Why losing money may be more painful than you think
...brain learns to make predictions based on previous mistakes .The researchers have shown that there appears to be a separate response when the prediction results in a financial loss, as opposed to financial gains,. The researchers found surprising similarities between the response to financial losses and a ...MTAS will cause irreparable harm to 10,000 junior doctors
...d be irreparably damaged because of the disastrous mistakes in the Medical Training and Application Service (MTAS). Their concerns are stated in a Comment published early Online and in the upcoming edition of The Lancet. The Comment also warns that patients could be in jeopardy due to the MTAS crisis, and d...Approved medical resident hours still resulting in sleepy doctors
...re sleep-deprived residents have committed serious mistakes in patient care. This led the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education), in 2003, to limit their work hours to not more than 80 hours a week and 24 hours at a stretch. The impact of this standard has not been well studied. "We need...... in drug dosing and frequency were the most common mistakes made and consequently, the most potentially harmful. Chemotherapeutic drugs have been credited with significant gains in survival from pediatric cancers. However, they are among the most toxic medications used today. Calculating dose, route, and fr...