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Insight - the Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, 1996
A patient had inadvertently mistaken her son's diflorasone diacetate ointment for gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment and applied it to her eye in error. Although no serious consequences resulted from the instillation of the topical corticosteroid, this incident provides another example of mistaken medication tubes.
C A, Servodidio, D H, Abramson
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A patient had inadvertently mistaken her son's diflorasone diacetate ointment for gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment and applied it to her eye in error. Although no serious consequences resulted from the instillation of the topical corticosteroid, this incident provides another example of mistaken medication tubes.
C A, Servodidio, D H, Abramson
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Antiretroviral Medication Errors in a National Medication Error Database
AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2005Antiretroviral medications have reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV. In contrast to these benefits, medication errors involving antiretrovirals represent opportunities for causing harm. We analyzed 400 medication errors that involved at least one single or combined HIV antiretroviral product that had been reported to a national ...
Jennifer, Gray +2 more
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Medical Education, 2001
Introduction There is a growing public perception that serious medical error is commonplace and largely tolerated by the medical profession. The Government and medical establishment’s response to this perceived epidemic of error has included tighter controls over practising doctors and individual stick‐and ...
H, Lester, J Q, Tritter
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Introduction There is a growing public perception that serious medical error is commonplace and largely tolerated by the medical profession. The Government and medical establishment’s response to this perceived epidemic of error has included tighter controls over practising doctors and individual stick‐and ...
H, Lester, J Q, Tritter
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Clinics in Perinatology, 2008
Prevention of harm from medication errors has become a national priority. Medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit are common, and most can be avoided. This article reviews the prevalence and types of medication errors affecting the care of the neonate and summarizes approaches that have been used to reduce these errors. Safety initiatives
Theodora A, Stavroudis +2 more
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Prevention of harm from medication errors has become a national priority. Medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit are common, and most can be avoided. This article reviews the prevalence and types of medication errors affecting the care of the neonate and summarizes approaches that have been used to reduce these errors. Safety initiatives
Theodora A, Stavroudis +2 more
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Hematology, 2005
AbstractFollowing the 2000 report of the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human, which documented that as many as 98,000 people in this country die of medical errors every year, medical, hospital, and governmental agencies began to consider changes in hospital systems.
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AbstractFollowing the 2000 report of the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human, which documented that as many as 98,000 people in this country die of medical errors every year, medical, hospital, and governmental agencies began to consider changes in hospital systems.
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Emergency Nurse, 2007
The authors of this study wanted to test their idea that, because medication errors are common in EDs and because there can be large variations in child ren's weight, such errors are more likely to occur among paediatric patients.
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The authors of this study wanted to test their idea that, because medication errors are common in EDs and because there can be large variations in child ren's weight, such errors are more likely to occur among paediatric patients.
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International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2010
PurposeHealthcare risk epidemiology identifies medication error as the commonest cause of adverse effects on patients. Medication error can occur at any phase of the complex medication process so prevalence rates need to be estimated at each drug treatment phase: prescription, transcription and administration along with their clinical repercussions ...
Ana Belén, Jiménez Muñioz +5 more
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PurposeHealthcare risk epidemiology identifies medication error as the commonest cause of adverse effects on patients. Medication error can occur at any phase of the complex medication process so prevalence rates need to be estimated at each drug treatment phase: prescription, transcription and administration along with their clinical repercussions ...
Ana Belén, Jiménez Muñioz +5 more
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