Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A specialised drug prescribing system could help prevent a repetition of patient murders, such as those by nurse Colin Norris, researchers claim.
Colin Norris, a nurse at the Leeds General Infirmary and St James Hospitals, was convicted in 2008 of murdering four patients using insulin to induce hypoglycaemia.
One question raised by the case was how likely it was for so many patients to experience hypoglycaemia.
The issue was again highlighted following the deaths of at least six patients at Stepping Hill between June and July 2011.
Researchers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the University of Birmingham analysed information on 37,898 inpatients to establish how commonly hypoglycaemia occurred among non-diabetic patients on general wards.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing...048183.article?blocktitle=News&contentID=4385
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Colin Norris, a nurse at the Leeds General Infirmary and St James Hospitals, was convicted in 2008 of murdering four patients using insulin to induce hypoglycaemia.
One question raised by the case was how likely it was for so many patients to experience hypoglycaemia.
The issue was again highlighted following the deaths of at least six patients at Stepping Hill between June and July 2011.
Researchers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the University of Birmingham analysed information on 37,898 inpatients to establish how commonly hypoglycaemia occurred among non-diabetic patients on general wards.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing...048183.article?blocktitle=News&contentID=4385
(free registration required)