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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 ...

The validity and cost-effectiveness of three methods for detecting medication errors were examined. A stratified random sample of 36 hospitals and skilled-nursing facilities in Colorado and Georgia ...

The most common errors were taking or giving the wrong medication or incorrect dosage, and inadvertently taking or giving a medication twice, researchers have found. The frequency of serious ...

(ARA) - Consider the following scenarios: A hospital nurse grabs the wrong vial of medication to administer to a patient — a potentially life threatening mistake — because the packaging closely ...

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 ...

In this case a doctor signs off on an e-mail prescription without reviewing leading to dire consequences. This month we look at how one medication error, which could have been identified numerous ...

New guidance published in Anesthesia provides clear advice to reduce avoidable errors on all steps of the pathway involving injectable medications used routinely in anesthesia care. The guidance has ...

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 ...

This article is written by Mayo Clinic Staff. Medication errors refer to mistakes in prescribing, dispensing and giving medications. They injure hundreds of thousands of people every year in the ...