The two separate incidents at the Vineland Developmental Center, home to 132 people with developmental disabilities, resulted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group ...

A systematic review in the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine finds medication errors remain widespread in Indian ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

Although it has limits, open communication can decrease the emotional and behavioral impacts of medical errors. Open communication with patients after medical errors decreases emotional impacts and ...

A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a careful recovery. Instead, a lawsuit alleges that a single misplaced decimal ...

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 ...

In the mid-1990s, researching a book about the quality of medical care, I discovered how the profession had for years been ignoring evidence about the appalling death ...

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 ...

Two-thirds of older adults experience medication errors during hospital stays, particularly when moving between different care settings, according to new research published in BMC Geriatrics.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four years ago, inside the most prestigious hospital in Tennessee, nurse RaDonda Vaught withdrew a vial from an electronic medication cabinet, administered the drug to a patient, ...