Only 30 percent of 1,859 measured hospitals fully meet the Leapfrog Group patient safety standard for use of bar code medication administration technology, but a significant 74 percent fully meet the ...

Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group home. She died in an emergency room on June 24, 2024, after she was ...

The Minnesota Department of Health's Office of Health Facility Complaints has substantiated a complaint of neglect at a Rochester nursing home.

PORTLAND – An Oregon hospital is acknowledging that it administered the wrong medication to a patient, causing her death. Loretta Macpherson died Wednesday, two days after she was given a paralyzing ...

A new study by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that the primary reason for medication errors is administrative error. The study analyzed 800 instances ...

The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that patients had been protected from medication errors." (Myung J. Chun / ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon hospital is acknowledging that it administered the wrong medication to a patient, causing her death. Loretta Macpherson died Wednesday, two days after she was given a ...

COLUMBIA — By the time emergency medical services workers arrived at the Chesco group home in Pageland in Chesterfield County, Michael Ashby Farrow had already died. Police said the 55-year-old ...

Medical errors can cost one their life or even grievously injure the individual. A 26-year-old woman was the unfortunate victim of a medication error, which caused her skin to burn from inside. The ...

June 14, 2011 (Chicago, Illinois) — Editor's note: Safe medication administration depends on the individual nurse using her intellect and the available technology; however, system issues can ...

Medication errors refer to mistakes in prescribing, dispensing and giving medications. They injure hundreds of thousands of people every year in the United States. Yet most medication errors can be ...

SNELLVILLE, Ga. — Three years ago, a Georgia woman went to the doctor because she was depressed. The medication worked at first, but then blisters broke out all over her body. For the first two weeks, ...