In nursing school, you learn to avoid mistakes at all costs, as medical errors can result in physical injury or even death.

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

It was a busy night in the ER and the patient with strep throat was the least of the doctor’s worries–until the patient developed anaphylaxis. In her haste to treat the patient, the doctor gave a ...

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...

Modern medicine is a marvel. New surgical techniques and preventative medications are being developed at incredible speed. While the improvements mean more lives are being saved, ongoing medical ...

As the quantity of medical information physicians need to access explodes, and as patient visit time shrinks, more and more healthcare providers rely on mobile devices and apps to quickly and ...

Re “When Does a Nurse’s Mistake Become a Crime?,” by Daniela J. Lamas (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, April 17): While systems absolutely need to improve to prevent medical errors, we must not ...

Peter Schwartz, MD, was chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1990s when a young physician sought him out. The doctor, whom Schwartz ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — If your doctor was sued for medical malpractice and had to pay up, would you want to know? How about if patients died? We found laws in Texas, and elsewhere, designed to prevent the ...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear recently signed a bill into law that shields healthcare providers from being criminally charged for medical errors, making it the first state to do so. HB 159 ensures that ...

The California Department of Public Health found that Adventist Health Simi Valley, seen here on Sept. 22, "failed to ensure that patients had been protected from medication errors." (Myung J. Chun / ...

Errors are an unavoidable part of modern life. From minor human misjudgments to large-scale system failures, errors influence ...