Electronic health records (EHRs) have transformed healthcare, making patient information more accessible and organized. However, like any system, they come with their own set of challenges. Understanding how EHRs contribute to these errors is important for patients...
Medication errors are a pressing issue in health care, happening at various stages such as prescribing, dispensing and monitoring. These blunders can turn into medical malpractice cases, where a health care provider's negligence harms a patient. The impact of a...
When patients receive prescriptions from medical staff, they expect the medication to be beneficial to their health and wellness. And while this is true in many cases, medication errors are an unfortunately common occurrence. While the responsibility to prevent errors...
Over 6,000 medications currently exist on the market. Thus, mix-ups and other similar errors are bound to happen every so often. Unfortunately, in the cases where this leads to adverse or even potentially fatal reactions, it counts as medical malpractice. Errors from...
These days, upwards of 6,000 prescription medications exist. Needless to say, it is expected for some mix-ups and errors to happen every now and then. Unfortunately, these mistakes can sometimes lead to adverse or even life-threatening reactions. In such cases, it...
After an illness or an injury, you may get a prescription for a medication that you need to take. In the time following this decision, you could start to notice signs of physical problems that were not there before. Medication errors that come from medical malpractice...
Residents of New Mexico expect to be able to seek medical care and get the right treatment. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case as medical mistakes can occur and result in harm. Medication errors can be devastating in spite of being preventable. What are...
With over 6,000 prescriptions available, an occasional medical error can be expected. However, a mistake with a prescription can cause adverse reactions, which could cross into medical malpractice. There are several types of medication errors a patient in Albuquerque,...
In New Mexico, medication errors occur far too often. Unfortunately, these errors, which are often completely avoidable when the right precautions are in place, can cause patients to suffer serious injuries or even death. There are several medication errors that are...
There exist a number of more commonplace underlying causes for medication errors in New Mexico. These include such issues as poor communication, mixing up medications for patients with similar names and sloppy abbreviations when prescribing. Fatigue is another...
