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Optimising drug prescribing and dispensing in subjects at risk for drug errors due to renal impairment: improving drug safety in primary healthcare by low eGFR alerts

BMJ Open, 2013
Objectives To assess the risk of medication errors in subjects with renal impairment (defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≤40 ml/min/1.73 m2) and the effectiveness of automatic eGFR ≤40-alerts relayed to community pharmacists ...
H. Joosten, I. Drion, Kees J Boogerd, Emiel V van der Pijl, R. Slingerland, J. Slaets, Tiele J Jansen, Olof Schwantje, R. Gans, H. Bilo   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug Dose Calculator Application to Prevent Medication Errors

JAI (Jurnal Anestesiologi Indonesia), 2022
As a part of the essentials in achieving patient safety, medication errors are one of the most financially detrimental problems in the treatment process faced by health institutions.
Mayang Indah Lestari, Zulkifli Zulkifli, Rizal Zainal, Muhammad Imam Mulia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of serious inhaler technique errors made by device-naïve patients using three different dry powder inhalers: a randomised, crossover, open-label study [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Serious inhaler technique errors can impair drug delivery to the lungs. This randomised, crossover, open-label study evaluated the proportion of patients making predefined serious errors with Pulmojet compared with Diskus and Turbohaler dry ...
A Palander, A Papi, Anne Burden, AS Melani, BL Laube, Catherine Hutton, D Price, D Price, D Price, D Price, David B. Price, Dawn Shan, E Mehuys, Erika Sims, F Lavorini, F Yildiz, Federico Lavorini, GK Crompton, GN Rootmensen, H Al-Jahdali, H Chrystyn, Henry Chrystyn, IA Basheti, J Haughney, J Haughney, J Palen van der, J Steier, JC McElnay, JC Virchow, JL Rau, John Efthimiou, John Haughney, KG Nielsen, L Borgstrom, M Molimard, M Molimard, M Moller, M Schulte, MA Crane, Mathieu Molimard, MS Blaiss, Nicolas Roche, PN Dekhuijzen, RA Al-Showair, S Verver, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, SP Newman, SZ Bosnic-Anticevich, V Giraud, V Giraud, V Giraud, W Azouz, Y Aydemir   +52 more
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Prevalence and Nature of Medication Errors and Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Settings: A Systematic Review

Drug Safety, 2019
Children admitted to paediatric and neonatal intensive care units may be at high risk from medication errors and preventable adverse drug events. The objective of this systematic review was to review empirical studies examining the prevalence and nature ...
A. Alghamdi, R. Keers, A. Sutherland, D. Ashcroft   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reducing drug prescription errors and adverse drug events by application of a probabilistic, machine-learning based clinical decision support system in an inpatient setting

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2019
BACKGROUND Drug prescription errors are made, worldwide, on a daily basis, resulting in a high burden of morbidity and mortality. Existing rule-based systems for prevention of such errors are unsuccessful and associated with substantial burden of false ...
G. Segal, A. Segev, A. Brom, Y. Lifshitz, YishayWasserstrum, E. Zimlichman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of the medication process in pediatric patients: a meta-analysis

Jornal de Pediatria, 2014
OBJECTIVE: to meta-analyze studies that have assessed the medication errors rate in pediatric patients during prescribing, dispensing, and drug administration.
Despina Koumpagioti, Christos Varounis, Eleni Kletsiou, Charalampia Nteli, Vasiliki Matziou   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Frequency, types, and potential clinical significance of medication-dispensing errors

Clinics, 2009
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Many dispensing errors occur in the hospital, and these can endanger patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the rate of dispensing errors by a unit dose drug dispensing system, to categorize the most frequent types
Xavier Bohand, Laurent Simon, Eric Perrier, Hélène Mullot, Leslie Lefeuvre, Christian Plotton   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

High incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription process [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Medication errors have been reported to be a leading cause of death in hospitalized patients. In this study we focused on identifying and quantifying errors in the handwritten drug ordering and dispensing documentation processes which could ...
Eggli, Stefan, Hartel, Maximilian Johannes, Röder, Christoph, Staub, Lukas P   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Medication errors and drug knowledge gaps among critical-care nurses: a mixed multi-method study

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
BackgroundMedication errors are a serious and complex problem in clinical practice, especially in intensive care units whose patients can suffer potentially very serious consequences because of the critical nature of their diseases and the ...
Juan Escrivá Gracia, Ricardo Brage Serrano, J. Fernández Garrido   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Medication Reconciliation of Patients by Pharmacist at the Time of Admission and Discharge from Adult Nephrology Wards

Pharmacy
Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of medication reconciliation by pharmacists at both admission and discharge in hospitalized patients with different kidney diseases.
Hossein Ahmadi, Yalda Houshmand, Ghanbar Ali Raees-Jalali, Iman Karimzadeh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source