Nurse at P.E.I.'s Queen Elizabeth Hospital suspended for alleged medication errors

The College of Registered Nurses and Midwives of P.E.I. has suspended a nurse for 90 days because of what the college called ...
KSL

Oregon hospital: Medication error killed patient

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Becker's Hospital Review

Study: Medication Error Rate Among Pediatric Cancer Patients Higher at Home Than in Hospital

Medication errors among pediatric cancer patients are more common when medicine is administered at home than at the hospital, according to a study in Pediatrics. Researchers observed medication ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Medication Error Leads to Patient Death, $3 Million Settlement

Credit: Getty Images. The discovery evidence in this case, particularly the deposition evidence, made it clear that the plaintiff had a strong case against the hospital. Mistakes happen. They happen ...
Becker's Hospital Review

A child medication error occurs every 8 minutes

The study analyzed data from the National Poison Database System of reported out-of-hospital medication errors from 2002 through 2012. They found an average of 63,358 medication errors per year, which ...
Healio

‘Unnoticed previously,’ hospital medication errors are more common in older children

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 ...
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Systems, not scapegoats: Why hospital errors keep repeating

WHEN a patient is harmed in a hospital, our cultural reflex is to hunt for a villain. A doctor is named, a nurse is ...