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Managing Medical Errors

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume, 2009
A patient with severe arthritis of the hip and shortening of the ipsilateral extremity undergoes hip replacement surgery with correction of the limb-length discrepancy. At the time of the postoperative examination, he is found to have a complete foot drop.
James D, Capozzi, Rosamond, Rhodes
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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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Chemotherapy medication errors

The Lancet Oncology, 2018
Although chemotherapy is a well established treatment modality, chemotherapy errors represent a potentially serious risk of patient harm. We reviewed published research from 1980 to 2017 to understand the extent and nature of medication errors in cancer chemotherapy, and to identify effective interventions to help prevent mistakes.
Saul N, Weingart   +3 more
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Medication Errors

Drugs, 2005
In recent years medication error has justly received considerable attention, as it causes substantial mortality, morbidity and additional healthcare costs. Risk assessment models, adapted from commercial aviation and the oil and gas industries, are currently being developed for use in clinical pharmacy. The hospital pharmacist is best placed to oversee
Henk-Jan, Guchelaar   +4 more
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Antiretroviral Medication Errors in a National Medication Error Database

AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2005
Antiretroviral 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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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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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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Medication Errors

2023
Abstract Adverse drug events (ADEs) comprise the largest single category of adverse events experienced by hospitalized patients, accounting for about 19% of all injuries. At least a quarter of all medication-related injuries are preventable. Preventable ADEs include errors made by the clinician and systematic errors.
Joseph Salama Hanna, Ramsey Saad
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Nurses' medication errors

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1994
This paper reports on a qualitative study of nurses' experiences with medication errors. Using discourse analysis within a framework of an interpretive research design, the phenomenon of a not too uncommon occurrence in nursing practice was examined. Insight into nurses' involvement with medication errors was gained from interviews, group discussions ...
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Evaluating Medication Errors

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1986
What is appropriate disciplinary action for medication errors? Believing the severity of the error is a critical factor in determining disciplinary actions, we developed a tool to assess medication error severity. The El Dorado Medication Error Tool (EDMET) is objective and simple to use.
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