At the Patient Safety Movement Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), shared a list of the nine most common medical errors in the United States. Addressing ...

Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop on the stairway to catch her breath. Her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Jason Turchin, a leading advocate for medical malpractice victims, highlights five common medical errors that often lead to ...

In 2014, 102 medical errors occurred in hospitals and 12 occurred in ambulatory surgery centers, according to the report. The following are the four most common medical errors reported to the ISDH: ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...