Most nursing home medication errors involve analgesics and sedatives, and these drugs are likely to account for errors regardless of how frequently they are administered, according to recently ...

Building closer relationships with facility staff and health care partners of nursings homes, such as hospital providers and ...

A man suffered an opioid overdose following confusion among care home staff over his medication. Thompson Elliott, a resident at Grangewood in Houghton-le-Spring, was given medication in December for ...

The authors leave open the possibility that current reporting systems are not catching the impact of all medication errors. A different study earlier this year found that medical errors, including ...