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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neonates are a particularly vulnerable population and may be at further risk of harm from medication errors because of changing body size, weight-based dosages, off-label drug usage, availability of ...

Incidence of medication problems and their harm potential following hospital discharge among pediatric patients with epilepsy were not significantly different for individuals who received discharge ...

A chart-review study of medication errors in adult inpatients by Bates et al. [1] found that, for 530 errors identified on three medical units over a 51-day period, missing doses accounted for 53%, ...