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

Additionally, if linked with point-of-care bar-coding and information systems, ADMs have been proposed to decrease medication errors by ensuring an electronic match between the physician-ordered ...

Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...

1.5 million people are affected by medication errors each year, posing a significant risk to patients’ safety and increasing healthcare costs. While providers do everything in their power to prevent ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...

Stephen Hoang, MD, is the medication safety officer and a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Health System of Texas in Dallas. He recently connected with Becker’s to share his team’s biggest ...

The NHS trust running Cornwall's largest hospital had to pay out more than £20,000 in compensation for administering the wrong medication to patients, new data shows. New data obtained by Medical ...