The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...

Medication errors are an all-too-common problem in the U.S. In fact, they affect nearly 5 percent of the nation’s hospitalized patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In ...

New York’s nursing homes are in crisis. Staffing shortages have strained facilities to their limits, nurses are overwhelmed, and residents are too often left waiting — not for complex medical ...

Australia's health system is one of the highest quality and most equitable in the world. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Yet our rapidly aging population, rising ...

What families need to know about a renewed debate over rules for nursing homes that sedate dementia patients.

The ISMP reports that the feedback they received from nurses and other healthcare professionals on the medication administration guidelines was overwhelmingly positive. A very few respondents ...