Insured working-age adults are frequently being hit with medical bills for services that should have been covered, a new Commonwealth Fund survey has found. The report, published Aug. 1 in ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

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 ...

At the Patient Safety Movement Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), shared a list of the nine most common medical errors in the United States. Addressing ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Jason Turchin, a leading advocate for medical malpractice victims, highlights five common medical errors that often lead to ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...

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.

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 ...

In 2014, 102 medical errors occurred in hospitals and 12 occurred in ambulatory surgery centers, according to the report. The following are the four most common medical errors reported to the ISDH: ...