This story was originally published on May 17, 2015, as part of the "Hidden Errors" project. Everyone assumes lab results are correct. For Kenneth Drew, the results showed he had HIV in 2011. By the ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Jeri was surprised when her OB/GYN office was calling her on February 1. It had been a year since her last exam when they told her there was nothing to worry about. The phone ...

How do medical errors occur? Any discussion of medical errors must take into consideration both individual and systemic factors. In health care, individual actors are responsible for their own actions ...

Although hospitals and health systems do not closely track medical errors and misdiagnoses, these issues have begun to receive serious scrutiny. Evidence points to the need for immediate improvement ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

In a recent keynote at the Lab of the Future Europe event, Julie Huxley-Jones, Vice Presents of Scientific Digital and Tech at GSK, said: “No matter what transformation we have in the lab, we still ...

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