Hospitals Archive
(Ally Donnelly, NECN: Boston, MA) – A Boston hospital has received a grant to establish the world’s first-ever center to study orphan diseases. An orphan disease is any disease or disorder affecting less than 200,000 people in the United States. Because the disorders affect so few, researchers have a
‘Councils’ have offered ‘counsel’ for 10 years The word “council” means “an assembly of persons called together for deliberation or discussion,” while “counsel” means “advice or guidance.” For the past decade, the Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFAC) have illustrated both definitions. Since their founding in 1998, these groups
Wrong-site/Wrong-patient errors In a recent incident at DFCI, one staff member prepared the room for a bone marrow biopsy and a second staff member accepted and labeled the specimen. Because the entire care team had not taken a time out for final verification, the second staff member accidentally mislabeled