The creation of the California Medication Errors Reporting Program is a result of the enaction of Assembly Bill 1286 (Haney, Chapter 470, Statutes of 2023) in 2023 to improve patient safety and ...

WASHINGTON -- A national system designed to increase reporting of medical errors won final congressional approval Wednesday and was sent to President Bush. It is estimated that more than 250 Americans ...

On October 8, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1286 (AB 1286), a sweeping pharmacy measure with several components aimed at promoting patient safety. Chief among AB 1286’s mandates is ...

Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...

A new anonymous, non-punitive medical error reporting system at a pediatric practice in Charlotte, N.C., significantly boosted the frequency of reporting medical ...

"A lot of initiatives" have been implemented at [Massachusetts General Hospital], "IT and otherwise, to address some of the failure modes that have been identified," says the senior vice president for ...

A bill that would require Minnesota hospitals to report medical errors is quietly making its way through the state House of Representatives, with what some observers might consider unlikely backers of ...

Indianapolis - Bed sores, foreign objects left in patients after surgery and operations on the wrong body parts were the most common serious medical errors reported ...