Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that ...

The College of Registered Nurses and Midwives of P.E.I. has suspended a nurse for 90 days because of what the college called ...

Credit: Getty Images. The discovery evidence in this case, particularly the deposition evidence, made it clear that the plaintiff had a strong case against the hospital. Mistakes happen. They happen ...

Medication errors among pediatric cancer patients are more common when medicine is administered at home than at the hospital, according to a study in Pediatrics. Researchers observed medication ...

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The study analyzed data from the National Poison Database System of reported out-of-hospital medication errors from 2002 through 2012. They found an average of 63,358 medication errors per year, which ...

WHEN a patient is harmed in a hospital, our cultural reflex is to hunt for a villain. A doctor is named, a nurse is scrutinized, and an institution braces for legal combat. This instinct, deeply ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication reconciliation is challenging during care transitions. Taking the “best possible medication history” ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...

State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including an elderly patient who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of ...