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 — ...

Despite decades of calls for more attention to patient safety in hospitals, people undergoing surgery still have high rates of complications and medical errors, a new study finds. More than a third of ...

Five years have passed since the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) gathered at the 72nd World Health Assembly and decided that September 17 should be recognized as World Patient ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

For a fourth year in a row, Maryland recorded an increase in reported medical mistakes, including some that were fatal, the state’s Department of Health said in its annual patient safety report. The ...

The ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP-MERP) database contains hundreds of cases of accidental mix-ups between adult and pediatric products used to immunize patients against diphtheria, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Hours after President Donald Trump’s ...