When Dr. David Friedman was a young doctor in South Africa, he didn’t know much. But one thing he did know was what drugs his patients were receiving in the cardiac unit of the old Johannesburg ...

A stock photo of closeup of an older adult's hands holding packaged pills. Last week, the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine held a symposium focused on issues impacting caregivers, ...

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, ...

Medication errors are very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 82 percent of adults are on at least one medication and 29 percent take five or more. With numbers such as ...

“CPOE systems have done a remarkable job in reducing the likelihood of medication errors, but mistakes are still seen with far too much frequency,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog.

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a pair of draft guidance documents aimed at guiding the selection of proprietary names for prescription and non-prescription drugs. The best ...

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health is using artificial intelligence to identify potential medication errors and improve pharmacy workflows, the health system said June 29. Ballad is using a ...

Poor communications between health care workers contributed to 25% of hospital incidents that put patients' safety at risk, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Psychological ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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