Although in-hospital medication errors receive most of the attention, neighborhood-drug-store mishaps, similar to the one in Colorado, also occur frequently.
The most prominent of these is a University of Virginia study of nearly 900, 000 patients, published in Annals of Surgery, showing that surgical patients on Medicaid endured a 97 percent higher likelihood of in-hospital death than patients with private insurance and a 13 percent greater chance of death than those with no insurance at all.
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The figures, which look at three-year periods, suggest the biggest percentage increase in self-harming resulting in hospital admission since 1999-2001 is among younger girls, aged 10 to 14.
In the study, one on-call paediatrician was questioned in every hospital providing acute in-patient care for children.
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Unfortunately, the Federal Trade Commission is unlikely to get involved in this case, because the market-concentration threshold they use in hospital-merger cases is too high.
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The trust runs King's Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield, and Newark Hospital.
The Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust runs King's Mill Hospital, in Sutton-In-Ashfield, and Newark Hospital.
It compared the safety of 65, 000 "low risk" births throughout England planned in different settings - at home, in hospital and at midwife-led units.
It was perhaps fitting that a senior government minister chose this week - with Mr Mandela still in hospital - to declare a decisive break with the past.
He said there had been talks in the past about whether Epsom's services should be moved to St Helier Hospital in south London - Epsom Hospital is currently part of Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust.
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"I remember that day very well, " Dr Rosana - as she is fondly known in the hospital - told me in a stiflingly hot ward.
His wife Sukhpreet Kaur, daughters Poonam and Swapandeep Kaur and sister Dalbir Kaur, who had gone to visit him in the state-run hospital in Lahore, returned on Wednesday morning.
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The couple are currently in a privately-owned hospital in Male and the air evacuation to a specialist burns unit in Manchester is expected to take place Monday or Tuesday.
It looked at death rates using four measures - deaths in hospital, deaths in hospital and within 30 days of discharge, deaths linked to low-risk conditions and deaths after surgery.
Study leader Dr Martin Wildman, consultant in respiratory medicine at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, said in an averagely-sized hospital the decision to admit a patient with COPD to intensive care probably happens once a week - or two to three times a week in winter.
"Long, long lists of drugs and other medical supplies which in the U.S. would be considered standard in any hospital -- they're just not available in Gaza, " he said.
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The death rate among babies whose mothers planned - and did - give birth at home was lower than the average for all births taken together - including those in a hospital, midwife-led unit, as well as at home.
In a study out today at a big infectious disease conference, it compared its best selling antibiotic Zyvox to the older gold-standard drug vancomycin in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Although he is a full-time professor, Wall last year opened the Danja Fistula Center in Niger, a 42-bed hospital specializing in fistula repair surgeries with an operating room, outpatient clinic and hostel facilities for about 100 women.
On Tuesday, two members of Ranjay's family - brother-in-law Mohammed Sehzaad and nephew Mohammed Asif - visited him in hospital in India.
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The researchers associated increases in multidrug-resistant MRSA in the hospital with excessive use of two specific classes of antibiotics often prescribed to treat pneumonia (fluoroquinolones) and offered as a substitute for patients allergic to penicillin (macrolides).
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The girl was in critical condition when she was transferred Thursday from a local hospital to the largest government-run hospital in the country.
At the Ballinger Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed hospital in Ballinger, Texas, the center's staff is acutely aware of the high-stakes political debate over the health care law taking place in Washington.
As of Tuesday evening, 20 people remained hospitalized -- six of them in critical condition -- in five area hospitals, hospital spokespersons said.
The University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff - Wales' biggest hospital - had the highest Rami score of 128.
The problem occurs when doctors are unable to discharge patients because of problems in arranging post-hospital care.
This past summer, I visited Sinai-Grace Hospital, in inner-city Detroit, and saw what Pronovost was up against.
Once admitted they spend 11 days on average in hospital - nearly four times longer than working-age adults.
Down the hall are some of the sickest patients in the 16-hospital system, people recovering from liver, small-bowel and pancreas transplants.
He took Columbia public in 1990, acquired the 71-hospital Galen chain in 1993 and months later merged with HCA's 100 facilities, creating the world's biggest hospital chain.
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