A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient said that the state Board of Nursing acted improperly when ...
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Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...
WASHINGTON – Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.At least a quarter of the errors are ...
WASHINGTON -- More than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor's offices, a count that doesn't even estimate patients' own medication ...
Several factors, including case type and provider experience, influence whether anesthesiologists report medication errors, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.
In August, a nurse at Main Line Health’s Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa., mistakenly gave a patient double the prescribed dose of a powerful painkiller. The incident led to state regulators ...
The UK medicines regulator has announced a precautionary recall of a batch of ramipril 5 mg capsules after a packaging mix-up was reported in the supply chain.
New research suggests that medication errors are fairly common among pediatric patients with leukemia or lymphoma. Among 131 children taking nearly 1670 medications, researchers identified more than ...