{"id":2756,"date":"2016-05-02T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:33:09","slug":"hospital-discharge-its-one-of-the-most-dangerous-periods-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Discharge: It\u2019s One Of The Most Dangerous Periods For Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Within two weeks of Joyce Oyler\u2019s discharge from the hospital, sores developed in her mouth and throat, and blood began seeping from her nose and bowels.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter traced the source to the medicine bottles in Oyler\u2019s home in St. Joseph, Missouri. One drug that keeps heart patients like Oyler from retaining fluids was missing. In its place was a toxic drug with a similar name but different purpose, primarily to treat cancer and severe arthritis. The label said to take it daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gathered all her medicine, and as soon as I saw that bottle, I knew she couldn\u2019t come back from this,\u201d said the daughter, Kristin Sigg, an oncology nurse. \u201cThere were many layers and mistakes made after she left the hospital. It should have been caught about five different ways.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/home-health-agencies-often-miss-medication-errors-endangering-patients\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=29136521&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-80YHywNbmn1NYv1bZJKwvH21xx0we3EgxYVNlCeTExE6P8_TMc2_VdGr3Xo5aD8utGErcMx7ed1sSMkH9MfFmoDGryWQ&amp;_hsmi=29136521\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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