medical error

Connie Savor Price says physician burnout leads to medical errors and compromises the quality of care.

This week's alert is the second Class 1 recall of a HeartMate device this year.

A new study challenged the accuracy of public health data on deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth ? and the...

Miscommunication in the hospital setting is a major driver of medical errors and malpractice claims.

Women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis.

The devices at their bedsides were lifelines, until they learned the foam inside could break down and make them sick....

Alzheimer's researchers aren't convinced the Quest test is backed by sound scientific research.

Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin's vascular clinics. Today he still practices,...

About 371,000 Americans die annually after a false negative diagnosis for a serious illness, according to researchers.

James Eason, MD, who earned acclaim by operating on Steve Jobs, led the transplant center named in his honor at...

Stakeholders warn that public reporting would compromise data integrity by leading hospitals to scrub records to hide bad events.

CMS data suggests that from 2017 to 2021 90 physicians billed for more than a third of all procedures and...