If medical error were considered a disease, a new study has found, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease and ...

Medical errors may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States - claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer's, according to a ...

Researchers used a prototype reporting system designed by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine to study causes of medication errors and adverse drug ...

The I-PASS (illness severity, patient summary, action list, situation awareness and contingency plans, and synthesis by receiver) system of bundled communication and training tools for handoff of ...

Spinal cord injuries are among the most serious medical conditions, often leading to life-altering physical, emotional, and financial challenges. While many spinal cord injuries result from accidents, ...

The following first appeared in the Substack of Eric Topol, MD, called Ground Truths. Eric Topol, MD The medical community does not broadcast the problem, but there are many studies that have ...

Medical errors caused by missed and delayed diagnoses in the outpatient setting result in significant harm to patients, according to a recent review of medical malpractice claims (Ann Intern Med. 2006 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Twenty patients died in Minnesota hospitals during a 15-month period because of medical errors or oversights including falls, faulty medical equipment and administering the wrong ...

A female Pharmacist scanning pill box. Barcode technology can reduce medication errors by ensuring that the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time, in the right dose, using ...

Sandra Hall entered the HealthPartners Same Day Surgery Center in St. Paul to fix arthritis in her left thumb. When she left, in an ambulance, she was unresponsive ...