Although it has limits, open communication can decrease the emotional and behavioral impacts of medical errors. Open communication with patients after medical errors decreases emotional impacts and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you thought medical errors were only a big problem in hospitals, you’d be wrong. Globally, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary and outpatient healthcare settings, with up to 80% of ...

When was the last time you read the discharge paperwork you received after a visit to your doctor's office or the hospital? Chances are, you filed it with other paperwork, or worse, you took it home ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Medical errors are gaining recognition as a serious ...

Question: What is the difference between a medical error and medical malpractice? Answer: Medical professionals have a responsibility to protect their patients and ...

Schuster Law has announced expanded legal services for individuals pursuing medical malpractice claims in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The firm’s attorneys represent patients and families seeking ...

Re “When Does a Nurse’s Mistake Become a Crime?,” by Daniela J. Lamas (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, April 17): While systems absolutely need to improve to prevent medical errors, we must not ...