John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma or a patient doing poorly, there’s a real ...

Earlier this year in March, a nurse from Vanderbilt University — RaDonda Vaught — was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of a patient. In 2017, Vaught gave 75-year-old ...

A Spanish study shows how early clinical cues strongly shape diagnostic decisions, highlighting the need for bias awareness ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

Entering orders for the wrong patient is a potentially deadly type of medical error, but the simple step of adding patient photographs to their EHRs can help clinicians avoid this misstep, a new study ...

If you’re not a professional actively working in the healthcare industry, you probably don’t realize how important medical records are — or how dangerously unreliable they can be. According to Black ...

John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the high-pressure, high-stakes environment of an operating room. “During situations such as trauma, or a patient doing poorly, there’s a ...