medication errors
Joint Commission issues warning on child med errors
As we reported earlier this week, a new study found that one of 15 hospitalized children... Read more...
Study: One of 15 hospitalized children harmed
A study using new methodology for detecting errors points up an alarming discrepancy between the level of potential harm children faced in hospitals, and what may actually be happening. The study,... Read more...
Trend: Hospitals move to cut high-alert drug errors
The public got an unpleasant reminder of how devastating drug errors can be late last year, when the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid faced death due to a heparin overdose. It wasn't a freak... Read more...
Errors encouraged by fast pharmacy pace
A new investigation by USA Today suggests that corporate policies for retail pharmacies such as Walgreens and CVS--which together fill almost one-third of all U.S. prescriptions--could promote errors... Read more...
PA hospitals won't charge for 'never events'
Pennsylvania's hospitals said yesterday that they won't charge for care related to serious medical mistakes that occur during an inpatient stay at an acute care hospital, such as wrong-body-part... Read more...
MA hospitals forswear payment for preventable errors
The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) has announced that its members no longer plan to charge patients or health plans for treatments required to address problems related to preventable errors... Read more...
MN hospitals won't charge for major errors
Minnesota hospitals have decided to get on the 'no pay' bandwagon. The facilities have announced that they'll stop billing both public and private insurers for 27 preventable adverse events,... Read more...
MN hospitals won't charge for major errors
Minnesota hospitals have decided to get on the 'no pay' bandwagon. The facilities have announced that they'll stop billing both public and private insurers for 27 preventable adverse events,... Read more...
Many MA hospitals waive charges for errors
Bracing themselves, no doubt, for Medicare's pending rules banning payment for some preventable... Read more...
Study: Abbreviations cause 5 percent of drug errors
Here's another argument for the adoption of eprescribing. Prescription abbreviations generated... Read more...
