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 ...

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.

Background: Medication errors (MEs) affect patient safety to a significant extent. Because these errors can lead to preventable adverse drug events (pADEs), it is important to know what type of ME is ...

Adults with high blood pressure and diabetes tend to suffer from medication errors more often, mostly due to adults taking the prescription dose.

Purpose Medical errors are a global concern, and specifically, EDs are at considerable risk for medical errors. Few studies focus on the healthcare provider’s self-perceived medical errors in ...

Introduction Medication errors have been associated with poor patient outcomes and pose significant public health consequences. Establishing medication safety quality indicators is crucial to ...

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