A child who needs life-saving medication fast puts emergency room doctors on the spot. "If a child comes in cardiac arrest and you don't know how much they weigh, you guess their weight. You try to ...

Color has often been used effectively to capture attention or differentiate items, but its use in healthcare as a patient safety strategy has frequently fallen short of achieving its intended results.

Regarding Ruth Marcus's March 5 op-ed column, "The wrong blue pill": When Kerry Kennedy explained that her car accident was caused by her mistaking the sleeping pill Ambien for her thyroid medication, ...

A medication bar-coding program at Sutter Health hospitals has helped prevent 28,000 medication errors, 2,600 of which could have caused moderate or serious harm, the Sacramento Bee reports. Since the ...