Today’s quantum computing hardware is severely limited in what it can do by errors that are difficult to avoid. There can be problems with everything from setting the initial state of a qubit to ...

While working on your computer, and especially while browsing the web, it is very common to bump into an error. Errors are perfectly normal things which suggest that ...

Although sleep deprivation has been shown to impair neurobehavioral performance, few studies have measured its effects on medical errors. We conducted a prospective, randomized study comparing the ...

The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period — immediately before, during and right after a surgical procedure — has found that ...

You are a young neurologist practicing in a small hospital. You admit a 55-year-old woman with hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus who had an embolic stroke at home. On reviewing the patient's ...