Kentucky is making history as the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize medical errors, providing significant legal ...

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We describe 3 categories of medical errors caused by failure to implement the intended discharge plans for recently hospitalized patients. Specifically, the medical errors defined in this study ...

O RLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - More than 131 million Americans, or 66 percent of adults, take prescription drugs. But ...

The fundamental purpose of reporting systems for medical errors is to learn how to improve the health care delivery process to prevent these errors. Reporting of medical errors must become ...

Related Content This does not mean there should not be consequences for errors that cause harm. That is exactly the purpose of Civil court. Criminalizing medical errors could have a chilling ...

In news that made headlines across the nation, the state of Kentucky recently became the first in the country to enact a law shielding health care providers from criminal prosecution for medical ...

Originally published25 Jan 2000https://doi.org/10.1161/01.CIR.101.3.e39Circulation. 2000;101:e39–e40 Medical errors cost tens of thousands of lives in US hospitals ...

A new audit of NSW health also found that four fatal medication errors were made - just some of the 20 grave mistakes over a 12 month period. Eleven patients had medical instruments left inside them ...