NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee nurse charged with reckless homicide after a medication error killed a patient pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a Nashville ...

Performing computerized analysis to identify patients receiving target drugs that may be used to treat a medication error or to search for serum drug concentration ...

In this case a doctor signs off on an e-mail prescription without reviewing leading to dire consequences. This month we look at how one medication error, which could have been identified numerous ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

The homicide trial of a nurse who accidentally killed a patient by providing the wrong medication is raising questions about the liability of healthcare facilities in similar cases — especially when ...

Patient safety leaders slashed the number of overridden medication safety alerts by 60% in the first month of targeted interventions. A nursing home patient with dementia who was admitted last October ...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with wearable technology is creating groundbreaking solutions in the healthcare sector. Among these innovations, AI ...

Every year, up to 9,000 people die in the US as a result of a prescription medication error. That figure doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of patients who ...

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 ...

More than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor’s offices, a count that doesn’t even estimate patients’ own medication mix-ups, says a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four years ago, inside the most prestigious hospital in Tennessee, nurse RaDonda Vaught withdrew a vial from an electronic medication cabinet, administered the drug to a patient, ...

NASHVILLE — A former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse accused of inadvertently injecting a patient with a deadly dose of a paralyzing drug has been indicted on charges of reckless homicide ...