The case arose when the worker was dismissed for alleged conduct causing serious and imminent risk to patient health and ...

Hospital medication errors frequent with children Nursing workload, ineffective communication factors in 4 child deaths CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2013 5:21 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18, 2013 ...

Medication mistakes led to the deaths of 10 patients and severely jeopardized the health of 26 others, leading to longer hospital stays and in some cases disability, says the report compiled for ...

Background: Over a quarter of hospital prescribing errors are attributable to incomplete medication histories being obtained at the time of admission. We undertook a systematic review of studies ...

As many as 50% of all medication errors occur on admission to or discharge from the ICU, and about 60% of regularly scheduled medications are stopped on ICU admission. 21, 101, 102 Maintaining an ...

The study of patient records in 20 hospitals in five provinces is the first comprehensive look at medical errors in Canada. A team of researchers looked at 3,745 randomly selected charts from 20 ...

Hospitals continue to invoke a controversial health secrecy law when they investigate critical medical errors, despite a government report that in March highlighted serious flaws in the ...

Bar-code technology can reduce medication errors in hospitals, a new study finds. With the bar-code technology, a nurse scans a patient's wristband as well as the medication about to be given.

In its hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a nurse gave Frederick Roufs, 73, the wrong drug, one of 26 medication errors the hospital made over six months. He died two days later at another ...