Hospital officials like Dr. Rick Anderson, the chief medical officer for Tucson Medical Center, say serious errors are not the best way for the public to measure hospital safety.

A separate study focusing on alert fatigue in the medical field found that when healthcare providers began ignoring important alerts, it resulted in a 14% increase in medical errors.

MADISON — A teenager in labor at a Madison hospital died after being given the wrong drug, an investigation by the state health department concluded Friday.

Addressing this issue will require major reforms and sizable investment of resources throughout the healthcare system, including the medication-use process.

The professionalization of college sports has prompted concern among team physicians that they will be exposed to a greater risk of medical liability lawsuits by injured athletes who claim a poor ...

The IOM report carried 4 core messages: first, the magnitude of harm that results from medical errors is great; second, errors result largely from systems failures, not people failures; third, ...

Involving Patients Is Central To Improving Diagnosis Diagnostic errors are often underreported or poorly reported. 2 Underlying causes may be difficult to ascertain or hidden by the unrecorded ...

Purpose: The potential benefits and problems associated with computerized prescriber-order-entry (CPOE) systems were studied. Methods. A national voluntary medication error-reporting database ...

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