New credential formally recognizes pharmacy technicians as essential leaders in medication error prevention and patient ...

Medication errors experienced by patients include taking the wrong dose or quantity of a particular drug, as well as omission of a drug or taking unlicensed drugs. Nurses who had attended medication ...

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 ...

For example, workers may draw medication from the right vial but mislabel the syringe, or they may correctly label the syringe but draw from the wrong vial. Although barcode labels, color-coding ...

Healthway Cancer Care Hospital (HCCH), the nation’s first cancer specialty facility, has officially completed the Becton ...

The topic of medication errors is not a new topic, nor is it one that will disappear from the focus of the healthcare environment. Patient safety will always be first and foremost in all areas of ...

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) September 19, 2007 -- A new website, Medication-Error-Review-for-Lawyers.com, works with attorneys to uncover fault in giving out medications to patients in nursing homes and ...

The value of pain control includes improved patient satisfaction, decreased complication rates, shortened stays following surgery, and potentially reduced exposure to litigation. [8,13] Methods for ...

Several factors, including case type and provider experience, influence whether anesthesiologists report medication errors, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.