Senior care, especially in long-term care facilities, is becoming more and more complex. The dynamics of patient care are changing in this setting as the health care team works to reduce avoidable ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Ever since 1999, when the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report on medical error, health-care leaders have been bemoaning the sorry state of American medicine. The authors of the study, ...

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SAN BRUNO, Calif. First DataBank has launched a new awareness campaign that will focus on the public and industry attention on the prevention of medication errors. The campaign will be unveiled at the ...

Many medication errors result from system failures and are not detected by the typical hospital self-reporting protocol. This has made identification of medication errors difficult. Now smart infusion ...

With as many as 444,000 patients dying each year due to medical errors (just behind heart disease and cancer), preventing such incidents is a high priority for long-term care providers. One of the ...

HORSHAM, Pa., & DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), with the support of Baxter International, is launching a two-year International Safe Medication ...

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 ...

Through a personal experience in her own life, Mandi Hall, a Microsoft senior user researcher, came to learn about the high rate of preventable medical errors in the US. The instances of medication ...

Purpose: Processes that pharmacists can use to identify high-risk areas and drugs that require special focus in error-prevention efforts are discussed, with emphasis ...