If medical error were considered a disease, a new study has found, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease and ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has ...

Medical errors cause 251,000 fatalities annually. 7 Medical errors account for 9.5% of all deaths in the U.S. each year, making medical malpractice a leading cause of death. 7 Medical malpractice is ...

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 ...

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

The causes were a fall, a medication error, a malfunctioning medical device and a burn. Three patients died after medical errors in Mayo Clinic facilities in Rochester and Mankato, including two who ...

The frequency of analgesic drug errors in hospitals is nearly three per 1,000 prescriptions, according to a news release by American Pain Society. Researchers at Albany (New York) Medical Center ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death, yet healthcare systems continue to struggle to reduce them. A new perspective article argues that fear of legal consequences, institutional ...

Researchers used a prototype reporting system designed by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine to study causes of medication errors and adverse drug ...

Fight Diagnostic Error: The deadliest moment in medicine is diagnosis. A landmark longitudinal twenty-five year study of over 350,000 paid malpractice claims in the National Practitioners Data Bank ...