Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that ...

Experts say that many early residency mistakes stem from structural factors such as workload, supervision, and training environment, rather than from individual performance.

Two-thirds of older adults experience medication errors during hospital stays, particularly when moving between different care settings, according to new research published in BMC Geriatrics.

A new report from Griffith University has found that fragmented medication systems in Australian aged care are driving high rates of medication discrepancies and avoidable hospital admissions—costing ...

The case has rocked the medical profession. On March 25, 2022, a Tennessee jury found a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and negligent abuse of ...

Surges in COVID-19 patient volume place significant physical and emotional demands on clinicians, which can lead to an onslaught of preventable medication errors, according to the Institute for Safe ...

Poor communications between health care workers contributed to 25% of hospital incidents that put patients' safety at risk, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Psychological ...

Hermon Fire Department adopts OneDose and OneWeight to standardize weight-based medication dosing, reducing EMS errors ...

Medical error can be understood as an unintended act either of commission or omission, within the context of healthcare. Errors can occur at either the individual- or ...

In the mid-1990s, researching a book about the quality of medical care, I discovered how the profession had for years been ignoring evidence about the appalling death ...