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Errors in Measuring Drug Concentrations

New England Journal of Medicine, 1978
MUCH of the research and practice of clinical pharmacology depends on the measurement of drug concentrations in the serum.1 The error of these measurements can be monitored by assaying samples cont...
W, McCormick, J A, Ingelfinger, G, Isakson, P, Goldman   +3 more
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PAEDIATRIC DRUG THERAPY II—DRUG ADMINISTRATION ERRORS

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 1988
The incidence of drug administration errors was prospectively evaluated from 1098 drug administrations in 97 paediatric patients. The total incidence of errors was 12.9% in a previous study. An educational programme (lectures and a book on guidelines for drug administration) was offered to nurses in an attempt to decrease this error rate.
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Drug errors in intensive care

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1992
Abstract Errors in prescription, administration, delivery and interaction of drugs are likely in children in intensive care units because of the large number of often unfamiliar medications these children receive. We evaluated prospectively the frequency and consequence of drug errors in a large multidisciplinary intensive care unit.
L A, Bordun, W, Butt
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Drug reactions and drug errors

2009
Abstract As anaesthetists, we rely on drugs for our professional practice. We use drugs to interfere with the normal physiological controls of our patients to allow them to undergo diagnostic or therapeutic surgical procedures. We need to have an understanding of the nature and extent of adverse reactions to those drugs, not only so that
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Reducing drug errors in anaesthesia

BMJ, 2011
Merry and colleagues’ new system to reduce drug errors in anaesthesia had an error rate of 9.1 per 100 administrations.1 This seems high, although the most common errors were in drug recording, such as a discrepancy between recorded and observed total dose. These may not be drug errors. Patients probably received the correct dose, but …
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[Drug dispensing errors].

Ugeskrift for laeger, 2006
Most Danish hospitals have ward-based medication supply systems: frequently used drugs are stored in ward drug cupboards and dispensed by nursing staff. The objective of this study was to describe the frequency of dispensing errors and to identify risk factors.Cross-sectional study conducted on five hospital wards.
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Antibody–drug conjugates: Smart chemotherapy delivery across tumor histologies

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Paolo Tarantino, Roberto Carmagnani Pestana, Shanu Modi   +2 more
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Drug errors.

Emergency nurse : the journal of the RCN Accident and Emergency Nursing Association
Registered nurses are expected to know about the drugs they administer, their indications, contraindications and adverse effects, and their correct doses. In addition to this, most registered nurses can rattle off the correct procedures for safe drug administration.
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Avoiding drug errors.

Professional nurse (London, England), 2002
Although no statistics are available, medication errors occur relatively frequently and should be a target for Clinical Governance activities. Organisations need to create a culture where risk management regarding medication is incorporated.
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[Drug errors during anesthesia].

Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology, 2008
We report drug errors during anesthesia. The data were retrieved from the incident reports in a period of June 2000 to June 2003 at the Department of Anesthesiology, Fukuoka University Hospital. Drug errors occurred in 18 (0.12%) of 15,271 patients who were managed by anesthesiologists during the period.
Takanao, Hirai, Shinjiro, Shono, Kazuo, Higa, Kiyoshi, Katori, Takamitsu, Hamada, Shigenori, Iwakiri   +5 more
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