The preparation of a trial balance is an important step of the accounting cycle. An unadjusted trial balance is prepared to check the accuracy of information posted in the general ledger. The suspense ...

The validity and cost-effectiveness of three methods for detecting medication errors were examined. A stratified random sample of 36 hospitals and skilled-nursing facilities in Colorado and Georgia ...

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, researchers are providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic ...

A new approach developed helps to measure diagnostic errors. The Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error (SPADE) aids to reduce misdiagnosis-related deaths ...

These data show that direct observation detected administration errors at a much higher rate and more accurately than either chart review or incident report review. The detection rate of false ...