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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.

Medication errors occurring outside of healthcare facilities doubled from 2000 through 2012, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Toxicology. For the study, researchers with Center ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preventable patient harm remains a pressing issue in healthcare, with medication errors posing a significant threat. These ...

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 — ...

The relationship between a patient and a healthcare provider is built on a profound and almost sacred foundation of trust. We ...

Deploying a central-fill Rx model for its 21 hospitals has dramatically reduced technician hours – and the risk of medication ...

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

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 ...