These errors primarily involved accidentally omitting medications ... potentially including enhanced roles for pharmacists ...

While the key systems changes that will improve patient safety must occur in hospitals and other healthcare organizations ... free to report and examine their errors and remedy the systems failures.

Objective: To systematically review empirical evidence on the prevalence and nature of medication administration errors (MAEs) in health care settings. Data Sources: Ten electronic databases ...

When you enter a medical facility, you trust the medical experts to provide the best possible treatment. Unfortunately, some ...

The migraine I'd been suffering for two weeks was nothing compared to the searing pain that suddenly shot through the left side of my head as I lay sleeping in bed one night. It was a pain as ...

While increasing attention has been directed recently toward recognizing and reducing medical errors, healthcare organizations have yet to benefit from a similar scrutiny of management mistakes.

The Regents of the University of California settled $15 million in a medical battery lawsuit after a patient mistakenly was injected with a chemical substance.

Apart from losing human life, the cost of inefficient healthcare cost $40 billion annually. Medication errors like dispensing wrong medicines and treatment are taking five lives every minute ...