SAN DIEGO, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Technology Safety Institute (HTSI)--part of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Foundation--is taking

Over 500 medication error reports imply an event occurred while the pharmacy department was closed HARRISBURG, Pa., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Between June 2004

Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medbox, Inc.

Temporary staff members working in a hospital's fast-paced emergency department are twice as likely as permanent employees to be involved in medication errors that harm patients.