Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...

James Mangan, RPh, director of hospital and ambulatory pharmacy for Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare, shared the most common medication errors that patients make at home with the Cape Cod ...

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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...

The most common drug class associated with registered nurse (RN) medication errors (ME) was cardiovascular drugs. These errors accounted for 24.7% of such preventable ...

Misuse of over-the-counter (OTC) medications causes 178,000 hospitalizations per year, according to 2022 research published in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. “Every medication, ...

Accidents happen but then there are mistakes that we make without ever knowing when giving our children medicine (Courtesy) Accidents happen - from children overdosing on medicine that has been left ...

A Pittsburgh-area woman died after having an allergic reaction to an antibiotic she was given not once, but twice, during surgery to repair a hernia. During the first surgery, the procedure was halted ...

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, the video ...

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 ...