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Medication error reporting in Tehran: a survey

Journal of Nursing Management, 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate nurses' reporting of medication errors.Improvement in medication error reporting is one of the major challenges in today's health care environments.This was a descriptive survey of nurses working in medical, surgery, orthopaedic, gynaecology and obstetric wards in hospitals affiliated to Iran University of ...
Fatemeh Hajibabaee, Soodabeh Joolaee
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Medication error reporting in long term care

American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, 2004
Medication errors are common causes of medical error in the long-term care (LTC) setting. Despite their frequency and potential clinical impact, most medication errors in LTC facilities remain unreported. Before better reporting systems can be developed to reduce clinically significant medication errors, it is necessary to understand how current ...
David Nace   +2 more
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Medication Without Harm: Developing Optimal Medication Error Reporting Systems

open access: yesCurrent Drug Safety, 2021
Medication errors are amongst the most frequently occurring health care related incidents and have the potential to lead to life-threatening harm to patients.
Yuko Shiima   +2 more
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Barriers to medication error reporting among hospital nurses

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, 2018
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study purpose was to report medication error reporting barriers among hospital nurses, and to determine validity and reliability of an existing medication error reporting barriers questionnaire.
Dana Rutledge
exaly   +2 more sources

Attitudes to reporting medication error among differing healthcare professionals [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2010
Aims Medication error reporting is an important measure to prevent medication error incidents in a healthcare system and can serve as an important tool for improving patient safety.
Gordon Prescott
exaly   +2 more sources

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   +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   +3 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   +2 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   +10 more
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