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 ...

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 ...

James Mangan, RPh, director of hospital and ambulatory pharmacy for Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare, shared the most common medication errors that patients make at home with the Cape Cod ...

Accidents happen but then there are mistakes that we make without ever knowing when giving our children medicine (Courtesy) Accidents happen - from children overdosing on medicine that has been left ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

But an incorrect dose, the wrong drug, or misunderstanding the prescription label can lead to major medication mistakes. And ...

Poor communications between health care workers contributed to 25% of hospital incidents that put patients' safety at risk, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Psychological ...

A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, detects potential errors in medication delivery. In a test, the video ...

Prescription abbreviations like "qd," "hs," or "bid" are important to know because they are often used in medication instructions. Your pharmacist can help you understand these abbreviations and ...