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hospitals have recorded an uptick in preventable serious incidents including medication errors and bungled surgeries, AAP is reporting.highlights an increase in sentinel events – serious and wholly preventable clinical incidents that caused or could have caused serious harm or a patient’s death.
Both deaths in the most recent year were linked to medication errors, while a further 12 medication-related incidents resulted in serious harm. Other serious incidents involved the wrong procedure being performed on a patient and the “unintended retention of a foreign object in a patient” after surgery or other invasive procedure.
Those outcomes may have been influenced by “multiple contributing factors” including complex medical conditions, WA Health said.
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