Unfortunately, nursing home abuse occurs more frequently than you might think, even in the Puget Sound region. While many forms of abuse leave physical marks (like a scratch or bruise), some forms of ...

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While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...

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

Medical errors are a sobering reality in healthcare systems around the world. Despite the best efforts of medical professionals, mistakes can and do happen. Understanding the impact of these errors on ...

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 ...

A new study by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that the primary reason for medication errors is administrative error. The study analyzed 800 instances ...

Hermon Fire Department adopts OneDose and OneWeight to standardize weight-based medication dosing, reducing EMS errors ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication errors rose 300% since 2000, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics this week ...

A new study has found a staggering rise in the number of ADHD medication errors among US youth over the last 22 years, most of which occurred at home. The researchers say their findings highlight the ...