To assess the nature of common medication errors, ECRI Institute asked participating organizations in its PSO to submit medication events over a five-week period. Participating organizations submitted ...

Inadvertent errors that 401(k) plan sponsors make are “ubiquitous,” says Natascha George, a partner in the ERISA and Executive Compensation Group at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston. “Qualified plans are ...

What do Icelandic volcanic ashes have in common with an innocent Brazilian man wrongly shot to death in a subway station by the London Metropolitan Police because they misidentified him as one of the ...

Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus on ...