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 / ...

Mistakes or omissions in obtaining patient weights caused almost 500 medication errors in Pennsylvania hospitals over 4.5 years, according to a state watchdog agency. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety ...

Medication errors are an all-too-common problem in the U.S. In fact, they affect nearly 5 percent of the nation’s hospitalized patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In ...

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 ...

Learn how medication errors lead to clinical negligence claims, from prescription failures to administration mistakes and ...

The case has rocked the medical profession. On March 25, 2022, a Tennessee jury found a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and negligent abuse of ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

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.

The last element of the 5 Rs -- right time -- has often been governed by the "30-minute medication rule." For as long as many nurses can remember, every hospital, unit, and nurse has passed ...

Chronic staffing shortages raise risks for health care workers and patients, but automation can help—if applied thoughtfully and with human oversight.