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 ...

Medication errors among pediatric cancer patients are more common when medicine is administered at home than at the hospital, according to a study in Pediatrics. Researchers observed medication ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children with cancer often get the wrong dose of chemotherapy or are given the drug at the wrong time, and many require treatment because of the errors, U.S. researchers said on ...

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 ...

A study of seriously ill patients from academic medical centers across the country has found that nearly a quarter had a delayed or missed diagnosis. All the patients had either been transferred to ...

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 ...