In the Lab: Simple Math Errors Can Imperil Patients
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Doctors make the same arithmetic mistakes the rest of us make, but the consequences can be considerably more serious.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting patients' lives at risk.
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Review Waitrose's QuickCheck scanner a real time-saver
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What we avoid in small caps, and why we avoid it.
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A hospital which gave patients the wrong results after cancer checks, finds another 24 'discrepancies'.
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Treatment errors often leave patients and families feeling guilty and afraid.
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How many people have gotten home after a blindingly stressful day and realize they&#39;ve forgotten something important? Well, now at least there&#39;s a scientific explanation for the oversight.
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Despite the perception that technology is the panacea that will improve patient safety and reduce medication errors, nearly 20 percent of hospital and health system medication errors reported to USP&#39;s MEDMARXSM program in 2003 involved computerization or
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Try to avoid false precision in your stock picking.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Using bar coding in the hospital pharmacy may help prevent dangerous prescription errors, according to a new study.
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Excel 2007 has troubles with multiplication when the result is 65,535--a number familiar to those who've dealt with binary numbers.
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NEW YORK  - Older adults with complex medication regimens may make potentially harmful mistakes in taking their drugs as prescribed, a new study shows.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward.
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If you are like many parents, there's a good chance you can't remember the last time you solved for X, were never really confident about the rules for when to use a comma, and find that the hourly rate for private tutors can be a bit daunting.
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A new method of diagnosing heart disease takes only seconds to conduct, but critics say the technique is ripe for overuse.