The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that patients had been protected from medication errors." (Myung J. Chun / ...

Hospitals are beginning to add pharmacists to their emergency department staffs in an effort to reduce medication errors, which contribute to more than 7,000 deaths annually in the United States, ...

In nursing school, you learn to avoid mistakes at all costs, as medical errors can result in physical injury or even death.

The Connecticut Office of Inspector General found that “significant medical errors” were made in relation to two inmates who died of overdoses at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown in July ...

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

Medication errors reported by registered nurses occur more frequently in the medical-surgical and intensive care units than any other hospital units, according to a ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

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 ...

When Dr. David Friedman was a young doctor in South Africa, he didn’t know much. But one thing he did know was what drugs his patients were receiving in the cardiac unit of the old Johannesburg ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...

State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including an elderly patient who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of ...