E-prescribing reduced many types of prescribing errors, including route errors, strength errors, use of inappropriate abbreviations and refill errors, and completely eliminated illegibility issues.

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...

Study results suggest e-prescribing systems may lead to unintended adverse outcomes, including medication errors, according to research published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. For ...

Research in the International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics has examined outpatient prescribing and found that overworked pharmacists as well as systemic workplace flaws can lead to ...

WASHINGTON – Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.At least a quarter of the errors are ...

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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 ...

Prescription abbreviations like "qd," "hs," or "bid" are important to know because they are often used in medication instructions. Your pharmacist can help you understand these abbreviations and ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication errors rose 300% since 2000, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics this week ...