John James has dedicated himself to improving hospital safety. His teenage son died after what James calls a series of hospital errors. "We got humans here. They make mistakes," James said. "The real ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool identified 10 times more hospital errors than the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicators and voluntary reporting detected, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Houston woman says she has spent weeks trying to obtain the correct paperwork from a hospital after her husband’s death, a delay ...

In my last post, you met Paul Hastings, the recently-retired accountant about to embark on an around-the-world trip who ended up with one-way ticket to the hospital instead. More people die from ...

Diagnostic errors are common in hospitals and are largely preventable, according to a new observational study led by Anuj K. Dalal, MD, from the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and ...

In its hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a nurse gave Frederick Roufs, 73, the wrong drug, one of 26 medication errors the hospital made over six months. He died two days later at another ...