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Study:Hospital cost-cutting could boost errors
Hospitals that focus too tightly on cutting costs may create preventable problems such as medication errors and hospital-acquired infections, according to a new study by two Boston-area hospitals. To gather data, researchers studied four hospitals, including two urban teaching hospitals and two suburban hospitals, looking at 6,841 patient records over 12 months. The study found that when patient-to-nurse ratios at one of the four unnamed hospitals studied climbed 10 percent, the hospital …
Read more...Study: Hospitalized kids get off-label drugs
Almost 80 percent of hospitalized children get meds only approved for adult use, according to a new study. Researchers with the Pediatric Health Information Systems Research Group looked at patient records from 31 major children's hospitals from the year 2004, focusing on 90 drugs that are often prescribed for children or have been targeted by the FDA for pediatric study. Children are most typically given adult painkillers, nutrients and gastrointestinal agents, the study concluded. …
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