I have come upon patients that are short on breath and in respiratory distress and the call bell is going off and nobody is ...

A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a ...

Electronic medical records (EMRs) can play an important role in the reduction of medication errors, but they should not be considered the be-all, end-all solution. Healthcare organizations, in fact, ...

A collaborative pharmaceutical care intervention decreased inpatient medication errors by 77.8 percent at admission and 78.7 percent at discharge, according to a study in BMJ Quality and Safety.

A new study by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that the primary reason for medication errors is administrative error. The study analyzed 800 instances ...

The family of late 2-year-old De’Markus Page filed a wrongful death lawsuit against UF Health Shands in Gainesville, Fla., ...

Background: Medication errors are common in health care and have the potential to cause significant morbidity and mortality. There is little information regarding the nature, frequency and severity of ...

Patients are rarely informed when medication errors are made in hospitals, according to a study in Critical Care Medicine. Researchers studied hospital intensive care unit and non-ICU medication ...

A San Antonio woman has spent the last decade developing a product and creating a company that aims to clearly label IV ...

Electronic medical records (EMRs) can play an important role in the reduction of medication errors, but they should not be considered the be-all, end-all solution. Healthcare organizations, in fact, ...