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With medication errors outside of health facilities on the rise, learn more here about the unique challenges to proper medication use and where prevention strategies need to be directed. Medication ...

A new study shows medication errors are on the rise, and we're not talking about errors by doctors or nurses, but consumers. It could be the wrong medication, the wrong dose or a dangerous combination ...

WASHINGTON – Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.At least a quarter of the errors are ...

Learn how medication errors lead to clinical negligence claims, from prescription failures to administration mistakes and ...

Hospitals are improving their ability to prevent medication errors by enhancing their use of electronic medication safety systems, data from The Leapfrog Group’s fall 2024 safety grade report ...

The College of Registered Nurses and Midwives of P.E.I. has suspended a nurse for 90 days because of what the college called ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, detects potential errors in medication delivery. In a test whose results ...

ORLANDO, FL — Phone calls from a heart-failure clinic staff pharmacist to patients a couple days after their hospital discharge identified important medication errors, sometimes multiple errors, in ...

Better educating physicians, using computers to order drugs and improving the system for policing inappropriate medication use can help reduce potentially deadly errors among cardiovascular patients, ...

A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a careful recovery. Instead, a lawsuit alleges that a single misplaced decimal ...