The impact of medical errors on patients and families can be multi-dimensional and prolonged. For patients, the physical, psychological, and financial impact of medical errors can last long after an ...

True or false? A trip to the doctor’s is guaranteed to make you feel better. The answer is false, unfortunately, as all-too-common issues like medical errors can send patients home feeling worse than ...

Preventable medical errors encompass a wide range of mistakes including misdiagnosis, medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections and communication breakdowns among health ...

Kathleen Sutcliffe is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of a forthcoming book Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American ...