Most nursing home medication errors involve analgesics and sedatives, and these drugs are likely to account for errors regardless of how frequently they are administered, according to recently ...

Medication errors in Illinois nursing homes are leading to hospitalizations for dangerously low blood sugar, visual hallucinations and labored breathing, according to information obtained by NBC 5 ...

In January the Department of Health issued an alert after a report found that people in care homes were far more likely to be given the wrong medicine than those in the community. Nick Barber, ...

A man suffered an opioid overdose following confusion among care home staff over his medication. Thompson Elliott, a resident at Grangewood in Houghton-le-Spring, was given medication in December for ...

The authors leave open the possibility that current reporting systems are not catching the impact of all medication errors. A different study earlier this year found that medical errors, including ...

“The Summer of Nursing Home Medication Awareness” may not have the same ring as “The Summer of Love” or be as funny as “The Summer of George,” but if residents are better off come the fall, it will be ...

A care home worker who gave the wrong medication to a resident has been acquitted of manslaughter. Jane Barnard denied ...

Vintage Faire Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Dale Road in Modesto in March shipped seven long-term residents to two sister nursing homes in San Joaquin County, according to state records.

New research from Swansea University suggests that a simple nurse- or carer-led medicines' monitoring system can help reduce medication-related illness for people living in residential care homes - ...

Effective intervention can reduce medication overuse in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF's), the latest University of Tasmania research shows. The research was conducted in 150 Australian RACF's ...