A study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicated that 60 percent of reported errors in the office setting associated with harm involved prescription errors. The following are recommendations to improve the medication prescription process in the office setting.

What should you do when a laptop computer with patient information or a patient medical record is stolen from your office or your provider's car?

Effective August 11, 2011, Physician Assistants (PA) are required to post a Notification to Consumers. The notification informs patients that the PA is licensed and regulated by the California Physician Assistant Committee.

Callers to CAP's Hotline have asked the following questions related to interactions with the coroner and we thought all of our readers would appreciate the answers

A new health care consumer protection law, requires that a health care practitioner communicate to a patient his or her name, license type, and highest level of academic degree