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On April 17, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices added more recommendations to its list of medical abbreviations that should never be used. The organization’s List of Error-Prone Abbreviations ...

The types, causes, contributing factors, and patient demographics of fatal medication errors were reviewed. Case reports of medication errors from hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and patients' ...

Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...

These data show that direct observation detected administration errors at a much higher rate and more accurately than either chart review or incident report review. The detection rate of false ...

Medication errors appear to be common, often hidden and associated with adverse events among patients receiving outpatient care after an organ transplant, according to a report in the March issue of ...

New Orleans, La. Dec. 8, 2003--Data from the most recent report on medication errors compiled by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) supports several key patient safety goals outlined by the Joint ...

Parents of children with chronic conditions make many mistakes when giving lifesaving medicines, according to new research. Parents of children with chronic conditions make many mistakes when giving ...

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Sometimes the only way of telling similar medication apart is by name. alekso94/Shutterstock In one English language case of a lookalike name confusion error, reported in 2004, a patient was ...