AI could help change that. Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine.

An estimated 7,000 to 9,000 people die each year in the US because of medication errors, and hundreds of thousands of adverse events are gone unreported. The cost of these errors amounts to about ...

The study analyzed 800 instances of medication error, which occurs when staff members administer medication to the wrong patient after either ignoring proper identification procedure or ...

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 ...

The UK's drug watchdog has issued an urgent recall of a widely prescribed asthma inhaler following the discovery of a serious ...

September 18, 2023 / 6:58 AM PDT / CBS/Bay City News Service A bill seeking to address understaffing and medication errors in chain pharmacies in California is now headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.