NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee nurse charged with reckless homicide after a medication error killed a patient pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a Nashville ...

The homicide trial of a nurse who accidentally killed a patient by providing the wrong medication is raising questions about the liability of healthcare facilities in similar cases — especially when ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

Patient safety leaders slashed the number of overridden medication safety alerts by 60% in the first month of targeted interventions. A nursing home patient with dementia who was admitted last October ...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with wearable technology is creating groundbreaking solutions in the healthcare sector. Among these innovations, AI ...

Despite numerous advances in anesthesia safety over the years, former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught's deadly medication error could have been prevented with a few ...

Every year, up to 9,000 people die in the US as a result of a prescription medication error. That figure doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of patients who ...

Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group home. She died in an emergency room on June 24, 2024, after she was ...

RaDonda Vaught, a former Tennessee nurse convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error, whose trial became a rallying cry for nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes, will not be ...

NASHVILLE — A former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse accused of inadvertently injecting a patient with a deadly dose of a paralyzing drug has been indicted on charges of reckless homicide ...

More than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor’s offices, a count that doesn’t even estimate patients’ own medication mix-ups, says a ...