New research from Swansea University suggests that a simple nurse- or carer-led medicines' monitoring system can help reduce medication-related illness for people living in residential care homes - ...

Drug theft, or the illegal distribution or abuse of prescription drugs, in healthcare facilities such as hospitals and clinics is an ongoing issue that can lead to patient harm, according to the ...

The authors leave open the possibility that current reporting systems are not catching the impact of all medication errors. A different study earlier this year found that medical errors, including ...

A study published Monday by Human Rights Watch finds that about 179,000 nursing home residents are being given antipsychotic drugs, even though they don't have schizophrenia or other serious mental ...

A new report that lists what it calls the best nursing homes in the US finds that top-rated facilities continuously excel when it comes to adequate staffing levels, lower rehospitalization rates and ...

Among over 60,000 nursing home residents who initiated antihypertensive medication, rates of excess fractures due to falls per 100 person-years were as high as 5 among certain patient groups, such as ...

Records from nearly 30,000 nursing home residents indicate that blood pressure medications more than double the risk of life-threatening bone fractures, according to Rutgers Health research. The ...