This article is written by Mayo Clinic Staff. Medication errors refer to mistakes in prescribing, dispensing and giving medications. They injure hundreds of thousands of people every year in the ...

When you look at your medication, do you just read the dosage amount and go? You might be making a dangerous mistake. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Toxicology reports that in the past ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With the rise of hospitalists, in an inpatient setting, this process is often handled and overseen by hospital ...

Additionally, if linked with point-of-care bar-coding and information systems, ADMs have been proposed to decrease medication errors by ensuring an electronic match between the physician-ordered ...

This study investigated the current status of nursing interruption events and analyzed the time costs, priority of events, and factors influencing interruptions. Objectives: To investigate the status ...

As medicine continues to develop, insurance companies continue to limit their treatment options and complicate their approval processes. Thus, the likelihood of insurance companies to initially deny ...

On October 8, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1286 (AB 1286), a sweeping pharmacy measure with several components aimed at promoting patient safety. Chief among AB 1286’s mandates is ...