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The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that patients had been protected from medication errors." (Myung J. Chun / ...

Most medication mistakes did not harm patients, the researchers found, but those that did were more likely to happen in intensive care units (ICUs). And ICU patients and families were less likely to ...

A collaborative pharmaceutical care intervention decreased inpatient medication errors by 77.8 percent at admission and 78.7 percent at discharge, according to a study in BMJ Quality and Safety.

While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...

An almost 70-year-old patient came to see me complaining that her antidepressant medication was no longer effective at its ...

Katherine Anne Moronski was excited about the next phase of her life. After seven years at a therapeutic boarding school in Massachusetts, the young woman with autism — known affectionately as Katie — ...

NEW ORLEANS—New data demonstrate that a computer-assisted decision support (CADS) tool can significantly reduce the number of medication errors and adverse events, particular major bleeding, that ...

A chain of errors at Auckland City Hospital in August 2004 led to an elderly patient ... There needs to be a comprehensive system for medication reconciliation." "Hospital staff need to ensure that a ...

Germany’s Jena University Hospital has begun preparations to test a system using RFID to track medication from the point of dispensing in the hospital’s pharmacy to the drug’s administration to up to ...