In an effort to reduce newborn identification errors, the Joint Commission (JC) has created a new newborn identification requirement for all JC-accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals that ...

Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

In this post, we look at what are the WHEA-Logger Fatal hardware and Event ID Errors as well as the associated fixes for affected PC users that may encounter the ...

A grizzly bear, which appears like a black bear at first glance. Color can vary widely by species, making it an unreliable identification method. A hunter in Bonner County, Idaho, mistakenly shot and ...

Businesses often manage their price risks by hedging those risks with financial derivative contracts. Because businesses generate ordinary income and loss on their normal business activities, they ...