Adverse events during hospitalization are a major cause of patient harm, as documented in the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study. Patient safety has changed substantially in the decades since that ...

Nearly a quarter of stays among an 11-hospital sample of roughly 2,800 admissions included at least one adverse event, and about 7% of admissions included an adverse event that could have been ...

Consolidating adverse event databases is a smart move, but without public education, real-time transparency risks becoming ...

The FDA has launched a new adverse event reporting system that will consolidate several systems it has for reporting different types of adverse events, the agency announced Wednesday. The new system, ...

Consolidation into AEMS removes fragmented querying across seven systems, improving accessibility of population-level safety signals relevant to pharmacovigilance and competitive intelligence.