Hybrid workflows — or workflows where a mixture of electronic health records and papers are used for clinical documentation — can contribute to medical errors, according to research published by the ...

Last week the Minnesota Department of Health published its Adverse Health Events report, detailing the occurrence and consequence of medical errors in the state during the previous year ("Annual ...

In nursing school, you learn to avoid mistakes at all costs, as medical errors can result in physical injury or even death.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital has lacked adequate pharmacy staffing for years, resulting in harmful medication errors, according to the Asheville Watchdog. After Andrea Leone, PharmD, posted ...

Deaths due to complications of medical and surgical care are the third-leading cause of death in the United States. Deaths due to medical error vary across the ...

WILLOW GROVE, Pa., Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), an ECRI company, has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ...

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 ...

The frequency of medication errors among children who take drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reported to US poison control centers ...

T'puram: Director of medical education (DME) informed state human rights commission (SHRC) that there was a medical error in ...