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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - More than 131 million Americans, or 66 percent of adults, take prescription drugs. But not all of them use their medicines correctly. Each year between seven ...

James Mangan, RPh, director of hospital and ambulatory pharmacy for Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare, shared the most common medication errors that patients make at home with the Cape Cod ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

The most common drug class associated with registered nurse (RN) medication errors (ME) was cardiovascular drugs. These errors accounted for 24.7% of such preventable ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

As we saw in last week’s essay, preventable errors are unnecessary, avoidable threats to obtaining beneficial therapy.Correcting them is prohibitive in terms of financial, emotional and physical ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

Accidents happen but then there are mistakes that we make without ever knowing when giving our children medicine (Courtesy) Accidents happen - from children overdosing on medicine that has been left ...

Prescription abbreviations like "qd," "hs," or "bid" are important to know because they are often used in medication instructions. Your pharmacist can help you understand these abbreviations and ...

When in an emergency situation, if you are taken to the ER, you trust the staff to provide correct and timely care. Unfortunately, the high-pressure environment can lead to serious ...