Team Alice focuses on reducing what many people would call “medication errors,” especially in older adults. Here’s how those ...

With medication errors outside of health facilities on the rise, learn more here about the unique challenges to proper medication use and where prevention strategies need to be directed. Medication ...

WASHINGTON – Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.At least a quarter of the errors are ...

Katherine Anne Moronski was excited about the next phase of her life. After seven years at a therapeutic boarding school in Massachusetts, the young woman with autism — known affectionately as Katie — ...

Six years ago the National Institute of Medicine made headlines when it estimated that medical mistakes kill as many as 98,000 American hospital patients each year. Now, at the behest of Congress, the ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

A new California law will require pharmacist-led medication reviews for high-risk hospital patients at discharge starting Jan. 1, according to a Cedars-Sinai news release. The law, promoted by ...

The last element of the 5 Rs -- right time -- has often been governed by the "30-minute medication rule." For as long as many nurses can remember, every hospital, unit, and nurse has passed ...

Amid Medicare Advantage’s rise, future policy shifts – including faster prior authorization requirements and Medicaid cuts – ...

Sharri Shaw walked out of the CVS on Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles in 2019 believing she had a prescription for the pain reliever acetaminophen. Instead the bottle held a medicine to treat high ...

A stock photo of closeup of an older adult's hands holding packaged pills. Last week, the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine held a symposium focused on issues impacting caregivers, ...