Medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) are difficult to measure because of their great variability. No method in isolation can study every aspect of the ...

These data show that direct observation detected administration errors at a much higher rate and more accurately than either chart review or incident report review. The detection rate of false ...

Nurses who are interrupted while administering medication appear to have an increased risk of making medication errors, according to a new report. Nurses who are interrupted while administering ...

Only 30 percent of 1,859 measured hospitals fully meet the Leapfrog Group patient safety standard for use of bar code medication administration technology, but a significant 74 percent fully meet the ...

Half of all heart patients made at least one medication-related mistake after leaving the hospital, and guidance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors, in a new study. Consequences of ...

Medication errors are among the most common mistakes made by healthcare practitioners, research shows. They are also among the most under reported. At hospitals in the state of Washington, more than 5 ...

A disturbing new study, published in the October 2015 issue of Anesthesiology, found that medication errors occurred in nearly half of all surgical procedures. Additionally, the study found that ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Half of all heart patients made at least one medication-related mistake after leaving the hospital, and guidance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors, in a ...