Search Tag: medication mistakes

Executive Health Management

Study-medication-errors-common-in-surgery

2015 27 Oct

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in 1 out of 2 surgeries studied and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations. Their study of 277 operations at MGH also found that a third of the errors resulted in adverse drug events or harm to patients. The findings were presented...Read more

Executive Health Management

Better-medication-management-reduces-readmissions

2015 03 Aug

According to the American Heart Association, poor medication adherence costs the healthcare system approximately $300 billion annually due to medication-related problems. The article is published in Case Management Insider.  Medication-related problems are one of the leading reasons that people have to go back to the hospital after discharge. It...Read more