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Possibility of mixing up patient identities too high

Workers in New York hospitals might make errors because of confusion about patient identities. When the ECRI Institute analyzed 7,613 wrong-patient incidents voluntarily supplied by 181 health care organizations around the country, patient identification errors took place at all levels, including among physicians, nurses, transporters, lab technicians and pharmacists.

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Why imaging scans do not always reveal hernias

New York residents might be interested to know that the 2016 Americas Hernia Society shed light on ways for medical professionals to better diagnosis inguinal hernias found in the small and large bowels of patients. CT scans diagnosed only seven percent of occult hernias and 25 percent of palpable inguinal hernias while MRIs found 33 percent of occult hernias and 41 percent of palpable hernias.

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