Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...

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, ...

Two-thirds of older adults experience medication errors during hospital stays, particularly when moving between different care settings, according to new research published in BMC Geriatrics.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication errors that happen in schools are the same that occur in other settings, an expert said. New AAP ...

Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...

Short cuts and nursing concerns The ECRI called the electronic management systems “valuable tools that reduce medication administration errors, but only when used correctly.” “Staff must be trained on ...

A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, detects potential errors in medication delivery. In a test whose results ...

The most common drug class associated with registered nurse (RN) medication errors (ME) was cardiovascular drugs. These errors accounted for 24.7% of such preventable ...

It will demonstrate how its evidence-based pharmaceutical knowledge supports confident decisions about the safe and effective use of medicines ...