A disturbing new study, published in the October 2015 issue of Anesthesiology, found that medication errors occurred in nearly half of all surgical procedures. Additionally, the study found that ...

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.

As a practitioner at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Dr. Leora Horwitz has seen her share of patients who misunderstand medication changes made during their hospital stays. Just recently, one of her female ...

A qualitative case series research study sponsored by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and published in Clinical Diabetes provides the first published examples of protocols to help guide ...

A new study has found a direct link between nurse burnout and unfavorable patient and facility outcomes, including medication errors and a degraded safety culture. The meta-analysis of 85 studies and ...

Jeff Himler Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 7:01 a.m. | Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 7:01 a.m. A Pittsburgh-area woman died after having an allergic reaction to an antibiotic she was given not once, but twice, ...

"Drug manufacturers and pharmacists have a role to play when it comes to reducing medication errors," said Henry Spiller, MS, D.ABAT, a co-author of the study, and director of the Central Ohio Poison ...

Pharmacists across the U.S. warn that the push to do more with less has made medication errors more likely. “I am a danger to the public,” one wrote to a regulator. Credit...Video by Jeremy M. Lange ...