To assess the nature of common medication errors, ECRI Institute asked participating organizations in its PSO to submit medication events over a five-week period. Participating organizations submitted ...
To our knowledge, this is the first multinational systematic review of the prevalence and nature of MAE in a range of health care settings. We found that MAEs remain a common threat to patient safety, ...
Efforts to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors are receiving renewed attention. In this observational study, conducted at two Australian teaching hospitals, researchers assessed the ...
RZV is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is preferentially recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP ...
Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...
The data for the study was obtained from the National Reporting and Learning System for England and Wales, where medication administration errors were reported between 2007 and 2016. During this time ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication errors, made in the clinic or at home, are high among adult and pediatric outpatients with cancer, ...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is likely paying benefits to dead people because of reporting glitches in the federal Death Master File, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found. The ...
Credit: Shutterstock. Between October 20, 2017 and February 20, 2018, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received 155 reports involving RZV, with 13 ...