Medical errors are more common than you think, and they can lead to life-altering – or ending – outcomes. Here's how you can minimize your risks.

Reducing injury and death from preventable errors during medical treatment is a worldwide challenge. The World Health Organization (WHO) debated this issue for the first time in 2002 at its general ...

You felt wonderful. Never better. In the peak of health, fit as a fiddle – until you weren’t. Then you were achy, miserable, feverish, nauseous. Blame a virus, but is that the case?

Methods. A national voluntary medication error-reporting database, Medmarx, was used to compare facilities that had CPOE with those that did not have CPOE. The characteristics of medication errors ...

A study has revealed an estimated 237 million medication errors occur in the NHS in England every year, and avoidable adverse drug reactions (ADRs) cause hundreds of deaths. Researchers from the ...

Medical malpractice occurs when healthcare professionals fail to meet the standard of care, harming patients. These mistakes can have life-altering consequences, including severe injuries, permanent ...

However, there are certainly ways to reduce their occurrence. In the United States, academic studies indicate that medical errors are the third leading cause of death for patients. The study ...

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, and refer to a range of mistakes made in health care settings including incorrect diagnosis, incorrect dispensing of ...