Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

A comprehensive study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older reveals that emergency room diagnostic errors occur in approximately 3.2% of serious medical emergencies, affecting roughly 1 in every ...

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.

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 ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

For example, workers may draw medication from the right vial but mislabel the syringe, or they may correctly label the syringe but draw from the wrong vial. Although barcode labels, color-coding ...

Credit: Getty Images. The discovery evidence in this case, particularly the deposition evidence, made it clear that the plaintiff had a strong case against the hospital. Mistakes happen. They happen ...

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 ...

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has released an updated toolkit to combat the high incidence of medication errors in ambulatory care settings. The updated guidance takes into ...