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Texas Aggie Artist, Benjamin Knox ’90, personalizing the “Historic Aggie Ring” You must bring your pink receipt and driver’s license to pick up your Ring. If you do not have your pink receipt, please bring your student ID and driver’s license. SPONSORED BY The Association •— T) OF FORMER STUDENTS" lA/ccvt&Tlte, Aggie, Nctwonld CHICAGO (AP) — More than 40 potentially harmful drug errors daily were found on aver age in hospitals in a new study, yet another report on a worri some problem regulators are working to remedy. The most common errors were giving hospitalized patients medication at the wrong time or not at all, researchers found in a study of 36 hospitals and nursing homes in Colorado and Georgia. Errors occurred in nearly one of five doses in a typical. 300- bed hospital, which translates to about two errors per patient daily. Seven percent of the errors were considered poten tially harmful. The study, which did not evaluate death or injury rates, is published in Sept. 9th \s Archives of Internal Medicine. lier steps, such as doctors pre scribing the wrong drug, or pharmacists incorrectly reading a doctor’s messy handwriting. “It’s a major problem, not a minor problem, and it doesn’t lend itself to an easy solution.” said researcher Kenneth Barker, an Auburn University professor of pharmacy care systems. Institute of Medicine repop, gesting that the nation's! tals have “major systems ^ lems.” The IOM repon medical errors Its it major problem, not a minor problem, ami it doesn't lend itself • to an easy solution. Auburn U Kenneth Barker nrvervty professor contnbtis more than 1 million inji up to 98,(XX) deaths annual Health care workers tr. for the new study were scr site and recorded errors &; 81 days ol obseni Potentially harmful r included overdoses instances when nurses fair give patients prescribed tion. The study follows thf Commission’s recent men! of six safety si will require starting in to reduce medical errem hospital regulators accredits most of the 6,(XX) hospitals. It is based on data collected in Barker and cc >1 leagues evalu- T he nc w standards 1999. ated hospitals ac credited by the dem anding better meth The rates are similar to Joint Commission on prev enting drug emirs, 4 those in other reports on drug Accreditation af Healthcare pital s that don’t mca< errors, but the new study high Organizations. nonaccrediicd could risk losing accm lights a specific point in the hospitals and nursing facilities. and 1 federal money. process of getting a drug to a Error rates were similar, regard- J< AHO says ho patient: "administering errors" less of whether an institution shou Id use at least two made by nurses or other hospi was accredited. fiers’ thcr than a p. tal staffers after a doctor has The researchers said their hosp rial re K>m number properly prescribed a drug. findings support implications in ensu re that the nght drug Other studies focused on ear- a highly publicized 1999 the n ght pa tient. Man convicted for third time ir triple murder of elder siblings SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A man has been convicted for the third time in the 1983 slayings of three elderly siblings during a robbery. The jury, which has been sequestered, returns Monday to decide whether David Chmiel. 47. should again be sentenced to death. The panel deliberated for 10 hours before returning with its guilty verdict Saturday evening. Chmiel’s previous convictions and death sen tences were overturned on appeal. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of Angelina, James and Victor Lunario of Throop, all in their late 60s and early 70s, as well as two counts of robbery and one of burglary. Defense lawyers maintained that the killer was Chmiel’s brother. Martin, w ho was a chief witness for the prosecution. Martin Chmiel testified that he helped plan a robbery, saying he told his brother the Lunarios kept large sums of cash, but had nothing more to do with the scheme. He said David later admitted to him that he stabbed the three and stoic S' from their home. The jury heard from 52 w itncsses and'i*. exhibits during the three-week trial. “Well, the jury spoke.’ defense l)» Gerald Grealish said after the verdict. “Aik we’re able to say that they deliberated for hours. They must have had doubt, h* thinking jury.” Senior IX*puty Attome) Geneni Pair, Blessington would not comment until tw' sentencing phase. Chmiel went to death row after a 1% viction that was overturned in 1994. wh; state Superior Court ruled that he did no: effective counsel. 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