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Confronting Medical Error

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2020
A new book makes the case for ‘a culture shift of epic proportions.’
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Medication Administration and Errors

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2010
MEDICATION ERRORS STILL occur in the perianesthesia setting as in all clinical settings. One nurse accidentally administered a potassium minibag via an epidural catheter by connecting to a Y port. The patient received the whole dose before the nurse later realized she had connected the infusion to the epidural tubing.
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Medication Errors in the LDRP

AWHONN Lifelines, 2004
Medication errors are perhaps the most common type of error occurring in health care settings; the effects of these types of errors span the gamut from no harm to death. It's widely held today that the majority of errors result from latent errors within a complex health care system, rather than from individual clinician performances. Open discussion of
Suzanne C, Beyea   +3 more
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Reducing medication errors

Nursing Standard, 2014
Most nurses are involved in medicines management, which is integral to promoting patient safety. Medicines management is prone to errors, which depending on the error can cause patient injury, increased hospital stay and significant legal expenses.
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Medication Errors in Children

Pediatric Drugs, 2009
Medication errors commonly involve children, with dosing errors being the most common. Medication errors are more frequent among the most sick patients who have urgent and complex medical conditions. Physicians who are less experienced, tired, depressed, and burnt out make more errors. The systems approach views every medical error as a system failure.
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Medical device error

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2002
This article discusses principal concepts for the analysis, classification, and reporting of problems involving medical device technology. We define a medical device in regulatory terminology and define and discuss concepts and terminology used to distinguish the causes and sources of medical device problems. Database classification systems for medical
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Disclosure of Medical Errors

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2006
The 1999 release of the Institute of Medicine's document To Err is Human was akin to removing the lid of Pandora's box. Not only were the magnitude and impact of medical errors now apparent to those working in the health care industry, but consumers or health care were alerted to the occurrence of medical events causing harm.
Anne, Matlow   +3 more
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Medication Errors

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2022
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Medication Errors

Orthopaedic Nursing, 2001
Errors in health care are receiving much attention today, although committing such errors is not a new phenomenon. Nurses are taught procedures so that they are less likely to make mistakes. Yet nurses do make errors. Although many types of errors can and do occur in the health care setting, this article focuses on a discussion of medication errors and
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After the Medical Error

JAMA, 2017
I grew up knowing that my father had saved my mother’s life. This wasn’t some romantic drama. During her first cone-down radiation treatment for invasive breast cancer, she convinced the radiologist to let my father, an internist practicing in the same hospital, watch.
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