Hospital errors are more common than most people realize. Medication error rates hit 34.11%, putting roughly one in three patients at risk.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool identified 10 times more hospital errors than the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicators and voluntary reporting detected, ...

Diagnostic errors are common in hospitals and are largely preventable, according to a new observational study led by Anuj K. Dalal, MD, from the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and ...

In its hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a nurse gave Frederick Roufs, 73, the wrong drug, one of 26 medication errors the hospital made over six months. He died two days later at another ...

Medication errors among pediatric cancer patients are more common when medicine is administered at home than at the hospital, according to a study in Pediatrics. Researchers observed medication ...

HOUSTON — A Houston woman says she has spent weeks trying to obtain the correct paperwork from a hospital after her husband’s death, a delay she says has prevented her from properly laying him to rest ...

The case, which affected five patients in total, is being investigated by the judiciary as a possible crime of medical ...