Medical Xpress April 28, 2025
Patients’ lives are being put at risk by poor communication from health care professionals in hospitals worldwide, according to new research my colleagues and I conducted.
Our analysis included 46 studies, published between 2013 and 2024, involving over 67,000 patients across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. And the findings are alarming. We discovered that poor communication was the sole cause of patient-safety incidents in over one in ten cases and contributed to causing incidents in one in four cases.
These aren’t just statistics, they represent real people harmed by preventable errors.
In one documented case, a doctor accidentally shut off a patient’s Amiodarone drip (a drug to treat heart arrhythmias) while silencing a beeping pump. The doctor...
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