Professional interpreters in hospital emergency rooms may help decrease the risk of medical errors, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Researchers conducted a ...

On July 22, the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses — representing more than 18,000 nurses — announced recommendations for the reduction of medical errors in response to a report recently issued by ...

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

Chronic staffing shortages raise risks for health care workers and patients, but automation can help—if applied thoughtfully and with human oversight.

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

Best Practice Medicine (BPM) has officially opened its newest medical education campus in Reno Better resources and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medical errors affect about three percent of hospitalized children in the U.S., with the risk being higher if they have a chronic health condition, a new study suggests.

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 my last post, you met Paul Hastings, the recently-retired accountant about to embark on an around-the-world trip who ended up with one-way ticket to the hospital instead. More people die from ...

Following safety concerns, Google has pulled certain AI-generated health overviews and is reviewing how its search AI handles ...

Medical negligence in Nigeria came to the fore when author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accused a Lagos hospital of negligence ...