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, ...

Every eight minutes, a child experiences a medication error at home. These mistakes can be life-threatening. Errors can include administering the wrong medication ...

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 ...

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ORLANDO, Florida (Ivanhoe Newswire) — More than 131 million Americans, or 66% of adults, take prescription drugs. But, not all of them use their medicines correctly. Each year, between 7,000 and 9,000 ...

Healthway Cancer Care Hospital (HCCH), the nation’s first cancer specialty facility, has officially completed the Becton ...

Measures for avoiding medication errors with the injectable agents used routinely in anaesthesia care have been recommended in new guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists. In particular, the ...

For example, workers may draw medication from the right vial but mislabel the syringe, or they may correctly label the syringe but draw from the wrong vial. Although barcode labels, color-coding ...

Findings indicate that such software can dramatically improve patient safety during surgery. A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General ...

Every day in this country, someone dies from a medication mistake. According to the Food and Drug Administration, more than 1 million people are injured annually because of drug errors. In some cases, ...

For the purposes of this study, a "drug" includes prescription drugs and biologics, excluding blood and blood products and tissues for transplantation. The objectives of the study are: To develop a ...

More than 131 million Americans take prescription drugs, but not all use their medicines correctly. Each year between seven and nine thousand people die due to medication errors. If you’re like most ...