Your health care providers can follow a process called medication reconciliation to significantly decrease your risk of medication errors. Medication reconciliation is a safety strategy that involves ...

The last element of the 5 Rs -- right time -- has often been governed by the "30-minute medication rule." For as long as many nurses can remember, every hospital, unit, and nurse has passed ...

A female Pharmacist scanning pill box. Barcode technology can reduce medication errors by ensuring that the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time, in the right dose, using ...

A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, detects potential errors in medication delivery. In a test, the video ...

TOPLINE: Applying the Medication Education for Dosing Safety (MEDS) intervention in routine clinical practice reduces parental dosing errors in pediatric patients after emergency department (ED) ...

Incidence of medication problems and their harm potential following hospital discharge among pediatric patients with epilepsy were not significantly different for individuals who received discharge ...