Patient Harm

The global number of patient harms increased from 11.3 million to 18 million from 1990 to 2019, with cases substantially rising in developed countries like the United States, a study showed.

New survey results from the AMA illustrate the burden of prior authorization, with many physicians reporting that it leads to serious patient harms, delays care, reduces work productivity and more.

ED attending physicians and advanced practice clinicians had a greater fear of patient harm than legal action in the event of a medical error, a recent study found.

The FDA has designated Abbott’s product recall of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator as a class 1 recall, the most serious kind. The recall affects 108 devices manufactured and distributed between April 5 and June 14.

In response to a request from FDA, Allergan recalled specific models of its textured breast implants due to a potential risk for breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma.