True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

To understand what helps physicians manage distress and find support after making harmful errors, professors at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, the University of ...

3-D printing made ECRI Institute’s “2015 Top 10 Hospital C-Suite Watch List,” but physicians at some hospitals, including Boston Children’s Hospital, are already using the technology to improve ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality has published a fact sheet offering 20 tips to help prevent medical errors in children. Rates of medication errors and adverse drug events for hospitalized ...

There has been a lot of talk about the potential for AI in health, but most of the studies so far have been stand-ins for the actual practice of medicine: simulated scenarios that predict what the ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a patient fact sheet called “20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors.” This fact sheet is not only valuable for patients but providers can ...

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio family is using their profound loss to help prevent potentially deadly medical errors. “I feel like every single life we save honors my mom and honors all the people that ...

Medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide, rivaling heart disease and cancer. Yet while medicine has made dramatic progress in treating illness, it has made far less headway ...

A health worker at a Penda Health Clinic in Nairobi during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Credit - PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP—Getty Images There has been a lot of talk about the potential for AI in health, ...