Tag Archives: Healthcare Workers

Healthcare utilization in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

By | April 22, 2020
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This post summarizes what we know right now about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. The information contained in this post may change as the situation changes, or may become obsolete. We will attempt to update if any of this changes substantively.  News and social media outlets have fallen short of useful… Read More »

How do Medical Errors Affect Healthcare Professionals?

By | August 15, 2016
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In 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report called To Err is Human. This report estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 hospitalized patients die each year as a result of preventable medical errors. But how do medical errors affect healthcare workers? A recent article by Van Gerven and colleagues, published ahead of print in Medical Care, addresses that… Read More »