Patients who suffer an adverse medical event arising from the use or misuse of medications are more costly to the health care system than other emergency department (ED) patients, say physicians and ...

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is an open, national surveillance system used by medical professionals as well as the public at large to self-report potential adverse medical events ...

The number of adverse events reported with the Evoque transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) system (Edwards Lifesciences) during the first year of commercial use should put operators on ...

New sedative prescriptions for sedative-naive older adults post-discharge are associated with an increased risk for falls and death.

Health care workers face adverse events daily. These events include secondary trauma, occupational trauma, unexpected death or injury, moral injury, medical error and ...

Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US state of Massachusetts, published by The BMJ today. Of the 1009 ...

Adverse medical events are a major source of global morbidity and mortality, occurring in 10 percent of hospitalizations, according to a meta-study published in the British Medical Journal of Quality ...

Research highlights gaps in awareness of Australia's Black Triangle Scheme, suggesting strategies to enhance understanding ...