A GRIEVING widow has slammed a hospital after her husband, 48, died due to being given the wrong medication for four years.
The recently proposed Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability rule proposes the elimination of core patient-safety ...
Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...
Mistakes or omissions in obtaining patient weights caused almost 500 medication errors in Pennsylvania hospitals over 4.5 years, according to a state watchdog agency. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety ...
A man suffering from lung disease died after being prescribed the wrong medication for nearly four years. Daniel Noakes was ...
John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KTIV/Gray News) - A former paramedic with Sioux City Fire Rescue faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter for allegedly giving a patient the wrong medication before that patient ...
A new study by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that the primary reason for medication errors is administrative error. The study analyzed 800 instances ...
Credit: Getty Images. In this month's case, an error went unrecognized for months despite numerous opportunities for its discovery. As much as we wish it weren’t so ...
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