Participating organizations submitted nearly 700 medication events from April 15, 2011 to May 20, 2011. An analysis of these errors showed a majority of errors occurred during the administration stage ...

Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus on ...

Almost half of medical errors in the emergency room are due to problems with information processing, according to a new study published in De Gruyter's Journal Diagnosis. This issue is not related to ...