Most nursing home medication errors involve analgesics and sedatives, and these drugs are likely to account for errors regardless of how frequently they are administered, according to recently ...

Nursing home residents are four times as likely to receive an improper dosage of a medication if it is administered in a liquid format than as a pill or tablet. Other delivery formats, such as ...

A man suffered an opioid overdose following confusion among care home staff over his medication. Thompson Elliott, a resident at Grangewood in Houghton-le-Spring, was given medication in December for ...

The concerns are detailed in a report on the service at the recently-built 52 bed care home, published by the Care ...

Exclusive: GPs will be advised that patients in care homes should have their medication reviewed at least once every six months as part of new guidance that will also stress the importance of ...

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 new report from Griffith University has found that fragmented medication systems in Australian aged care are driving high ...