Administration of a drug product intended to be sterile that is not sterile could result in serious infections that may be life-threatening.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a four-year quality improvement (QI) initiative to reduce deaths from tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. The initiative has been co-designed with the South Africa National Department of Health (NDoH) and other partners, and will be the first country-wide TB effort of its kind to utilize QI methodologies at both local and national levels.

Thrombus may form inside the device after implantation. Thrombosis or occlusion may lead to serious adverse health consequences, including death.

Significant probability of serious health consequences if more than the prescribed dose is dispensed, including: drowsiness causing trauma; increased anxiety; and risk of accidental injury to self or others.

Based on a scan of peer-reviewed and grey literature and subject matter expert interviews, this report examines challenges related to patient safety in the home, including fragmentation of care; household hazards; ill-prepared family caregivers; limited training and regulation of home care workers; inadequate communication among patients, caregivers, and providers; and misaligned payment incentives.

August 10, 2017 | Nearly 50% of workplace assaults happen in a health care setting, with some studies put the number even higher. What solutions are health care organizations finding in dealing with this unique and dangerous problem?

Common side effects of bupropion include: nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, headache, constipation, sweating, sore throat, diarrhea, dizziness, restlessness, blurry vision. Risk of allergic reactions are possible and could be life threatening.

Reports of B. cepacia infections in patients.

Five reports of unanticipated deaths that occurred from 2016 to present, in patients with liquid-filled intragastric balloon systems used to treat obesity.

Administration of a non-sterile product intended to be sterile may result in serious and potentially life threatening infections or death.

Advisory due to Burkholderia cepacia contamination and the potential for severe patient infection.

​The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), which recently merged with the National Patient Safety Foundation, have received a $725,100 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to better understand how delayed or wrong diagnoses happen and to test strategies to reduce them.

Exposure to lead can cause serious damage to the central nervous system, the kidneys and the immune system.

Drug products, including FDA-approved products, containing polyethylene glycol castor oil have been associated with severe and sometimes fatal hypersensitivity reactions.

Use could result in serious or life-threatening infections in patients with compromised immune systems and in patients with chronic lung conditions such as cystic fibrosis.

Use of product found to contained undeclared Sildenafil could result in death. The groups affected include men with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease.

Injection of particulate matter could potentially lead to limited adverse events such as allergic reactions, local irritation and inflammation in organs or tissues, or other serious adverse health consequences.

Patients had diminished visual function and adverse reactions after injection into the vitreous of the eye at the end of the cataract surgery procedure.

Unintentional dosing with Cyclobenzaprine HCl may potentially lead to the development of life-threatening serotonin syndrome, and other serious adverse events.

Administration of a drug product intended to be sterile that is not sterile could result in serious infections that may be life-threatening.