This year, The Dallas Morning News is looking into a category of surgical errors that are sometimes called "never events." ...

Emily Beth Devine, Pharm.D., M.B.A., BCPS, FASHP; Jennifer L. Wilson-Norton, M.B.A.; Nathan M. Lawless, Ch.E.; Ryan N. Hansen, Pharm.D.; Thomas K. Hazlet, Pharm.D ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical errors related to the discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, and to determine if there is an association between these ...

Medical negligence remains a concern for patients and families, but the biggest misunderstandings often involve what ...

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 ...

Misdiagnoses in the U.S. lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and major disabilities each year, according to a recent report from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Maryland. Each year, an ...

Theresa Cosper-Roberts, RVT, CVPM, ACE (DE), CVBL, on the culture of silence around clinical mistakes.

When you walk into a hospital or clinic, you place your physical safety in the hands of trained medical practitioners. The ...

The first study of the patient's perspective on errors in medicine may have health care professional rethinking what is important to their patients. The study, published in the Annals of Family ...

The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine requires its medical students to take a patient safety certification exam. Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught was chatting with a mentee the day after Christmas ...

ASK4SAM by Silberstein & Miklos, P.C., a New York personal injury law firm representing clients throughout Queens and the ...

Medical errors are gaining recognition as a serious public problem. One recent study reported that approximately 400,000 patients suffer preventable harm in the United States every year, while another ...