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

Best Practice Medicine (BPM) has officially opened its newest medical education campus in Reno Better resources and ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...

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On July 22, the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses — representing more than 18,000 nurses — announced recommendations for the reduction of medical errors in response to a report recently issued by ...

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...

The frequency of medication errors among children who take drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reported to US poison control centers ...

Last week the Minnesota Department of Health published its Adverse Health Events report, detailing the occurrence and consequence of medical errors in the state during the previous year ("Annual ...

Internal medicine residents who report higher levels of fatigue and emotional distress also report higher levels of major medical errors, according to a recent study reported in the Journal of the ...

The Connecticut Office of Inspector General found that “significant medical errors” were made in relation to two inmates who ...

Following safety concerns, Google has pulled certain AI-generated health overviews and is reviewing how its search AI handles ...

Medical negligence in Nigeria came to the fore when author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accused a Lagos hospital of negligence ...