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.
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 ...
Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...
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 ...
According to a new doctoral dissertation, automation will provide help, but at the same time new technologies require careful implementation.
The NHS trust running Cornwall's largest hospital had to pay out more than £20,000 in compensation for administering the wrong medication to patients, new data shows. New data obtained by Medical ...
North Carolina Poison Control announced that it’s seeing frequent mistakes involving a class of medications known as GLP-1 ...
The Oregon Patient Safety Commission was created to improve patient safety, and has been collecting information which they annually publish, but this year, the percentage of facilities reporting ...
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