Hospital staffing shortages in Maryland have led to a noticeable increase in serious medical mistakes, affecting patient safety and care quality. Over the past few years, understaffed facilities have ...

I have come upon patients that are short on breath and in respiratory distress and the call bell is going off and nobody is ...

Documents obtained by Asheville Watchdog detail an array of staff errors, communication breakdowns and technological problems ...

When Mary Brennan-Taylor lost her mother to a series of preventable medical errors, she wasn’t interested in suing the hospital where the mistakes had been made. “I wasn’t interested in a lawsuit ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...

The frequency of medication errors among children who take drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reported to US poison control centers ...

A study investigating medical errors has many healthcare professionals wondering if technology has the potential to reduce preventable medical errors, according to TNW News. Here are six key thoughts: ...

The death of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan after she mistakenly received incompatible organs during transplant surgery at Duke University Medical Center has heightened concerns among medical providers ...

If you’re not a professional actively working in the healthcare industry, you probably don’t realize how important medical records are — or how dangerously unreliable they can be. According to Black ...