Learn how medication errors lead to clinical negligence claims, from prescription failures to administration mistakes and ...

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

Following safety concerns, Google has pulled certain AI-generated health overviews and is reviewing how its search AI handles ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...

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 ...

Internal medicine residents who report higher levels of fatigue and emotional distress also report higher levels of major medical errors, according to a recent study reported in the Journal of the ...

A lack of understanding about the role of healthcare technology in medical errors and patient safety has minimized awareness of safe design, use, and management of medical devices and technology, a ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical errors related to the discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, and to determine if there is an association between these ...

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Medical negligence in Nigeria came to the fore when author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accused a Lagos hospital of negligence ...