Team Alice focuses on reducing what many people would call “medication errors,” especially in older adults. Here’s how those mistakes happen and how to reduce your risk.

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 ...

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has signed a contract with the FDA to assist in evaluating products and issue alerts about emerging ...

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, ...

She also commented that the name on the box had changed a few times, and was somewhat confused around whether she was taking the same substance. Fortunately, she carried the medication pack in her bag ...

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 ...

It’s every pharmacist’s worst fear: To come home from a busy day at work and realize that they failed to consult with a patient about a potentially dangerous interaction, or filled a prescription ...

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 ...

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