Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

After being cited for hundreds of medication errors, an Iowa care facility for intellectually disabled adults has had its ...

AI use in clinical care raises unresolved liability questions, with clinicians retaining responsibility as evolving ...

"We’ve shown in a number of studies that every one point increase in burnout [as measured by a survey] increases the risk of a medical error in the next three ...

Hospital errors are more common than most people realize. Medication error rates hit 34.11%, putting roughly one in three patients at risk.

It was a busy night in the ER and the patient with strep throat was the least of the doctor’s worries–until the patient developed anaphylaxis. In her haste to treat the patient, the doctor gave a ...

Those who have taken issue with studies like the one published in the BMJ in May 2016 that found medical errors to be the third leading cause of death in the U.S. have argued directly attributing ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...

A new study indicates medical errors are a much larger problem than previous studies implied, with nearly 50 percent of surgeries encountering a medical error or ...

A middle-aged man with sepsis from a diabetic foot wound was admitted to a rural Utah hospital. It was clear the patient needed to be transferred to University of Utah Health for specialty care.

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...