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The Challenges to Transparency in Reporting Medical Errors

Journal of Patient Safety, 2009
In an ideal health care environment, physicians and health care organizations would acknowledge and factually report all medical errors and "near misses" in an effort to improve future patient safety by better identifying systemic safety lapses. Truth must permeate the health care system to achieve the goal of transparency.
Zachary R, Paterick, Barbara B, Paterick, Blake E, Waterhouse, Timothy E, Paterick   +3 more
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Reporting of Medication Errors by Pediatric Nurses

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2004
Medication administration errors can threaten patient outcomes and are a dimension of patient safety directly linked to nursing care. Children are particularly vulnerable to medication errors because of their unique physiology and developmental needs.
Karen M, Stratton, Mary A, Blegen, Ginette, Pepper, Thomas, Vaughn   +3 more
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Paramedic Self-Reported Medication Errors

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2006
Continuing quality improvement (CQI) reviews reflect that medication administration errors occur in the prehospital setting. These include errors involving dose, medication, route, concentration, and treatment.A survey was given to paramedics in San Diego County.
Gary M, Vilke, Stephen V, Tornabene, Barbara, Stepanski, Holly E, Shipp, Leslie Upledger, Ray, Marcelyn A, Metz, Dori, Vroman, Marilyn, Anderson, Patricia A, Murrin, Daniel P, Davis, Jim, Harley   +10 more
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Reported medication errors associated with methotrexate

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2004
Medication errors reported to FDA as adverse events in which methotrexate was identified as a possible contributor were studied.All adverse-event reports submitted to FDA between November 1997 and December 2001 indicating potential medication errors involving methotrexate were analyzed to determine the indication for use, the type of error, and the ...
Thomas J, Moore, Christopher S, Walsh, Michael R, Cohen   +2 more
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Medical Error Reporting in America

Quality Management in Health Care, 2009
Should the United States require mandatory reporting of medical errors within the health care system? Many barriers to medical error reporting currently exist and have made it difficult to establish a nationwide reporting system. As such, individual states have begun to address this issue one state at a time.
Kristine A, Karlsen, Thomas J, Hendrix, Maureen, O'Malley   +2 more
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Hospital-Reported Medical Errors in Children

Pediatrics, 2003
Context. Medical errors are an important problem for hospitalized adult inpatients. However, medical errors in children remain comparatively understudied, and published research has been relatively limited.Objectives. To investigate the national rates of hospital-reported medical errors in pediatric inpatients over the period 1988–1997; and to ...
Anthony D, Slonim, Bonnie J, LaFleur, Wendy, Ahmed, Jill G, Joseph   +3 more
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Reporting Medication Errors Through Computerized Medication Administration

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2002
The incidence of medication errors has risen dramatically during the last decade to an alarming number. Nurses report only 5% of significant errors, those considered life threatening. Little research has been done related to medication errors at the administration stage or reporting methods.
Debra K, Low, Jan V R, Belcher
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Analysis of Medication Error Reports

Engineering/Technology Management: Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis, Technology and Society, Engineering Business Management, 2004
In medicine, as in many areas of research and society, technological innovation and the shift from paper based information to electronic records has created a climate of ever increasing availability of raw data. There has been a corresponding lag in our abilities to analyze this mass of data, and traditional forms and expressions of statistical ...
Paul Whitney, Jonathan Young, John Santell, Rodney Hicks, Christian Posse, Barbara Fecht   +5 more
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Pediatric Antidepressant Medication Errors in a National Error Reporting Database

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2010
To describe inpatient and outpatient pediatric antidepressant medication errors.We analyzed all error reports from the United States Pharmacopeia MEDMARX database, from 2003 to 2006, involving antidepressant medications and patients younger than 18 years.Of the 451 error reports identified, 95% reached the patient, 6.4% reached the patient and ...
Michael L, Rinke, David G, Bundy, Andrew D, Shore, Elizabeth, Colantuoni, Laura L, Morlock, Marlene R, Miller   +5 more
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Hospital-reported medical errors in premature neonates*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2004
To determine the national rate of hospital-reported medical errors in premature neonates and describe the patient and organizational characteristics associated with their occurrence.Nonconcurrent, cohort study.The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) contains discharge data collected at community hospitals sited in >20 states.All neonatal ...
David E, Kanter, Wendy, Turenne, Anthony D, Slonim   +2 more
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