Surges in COVID-19 patient volume place significant physical and emotional demands on clinicians, which can lead to an onslaught of preventable medication errors, according to the Institute for Safe ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

1. Ask questions and disclose as much information as you can. Ask your doctor or pharmacist questions about your medications and what they treat. Knowing what medications you take and why can help you ...

Medication errors are very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 82 percent of adults are on at least one medication and 29 percent take five or more. With numbers such ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality has published a fact sheet offering 20 tips to help prevent medical errors in children. Rates of medication errors and adverse drug events for hospitalized ...

"Hospitals spend millions of dollars to implement CPOE systems, but our results clearly show that many hospitals' systems are not operating as well as they should, putting patients' lives at risk." To ...

Some nurses will also leave extra infusions at the bedside so they can be spiked and hung by any nurse entering the room. ISMP recently spoke to a hospital nurse working in a location where the ...

For the purposes of this study, a "drug" includes prescription drugs and biologics, excluding blood and blood products and tissues for transplantation. The objectives of the study are: To develop a ...