Investigating the Factors Affecting the Occurrence and Reporting of Medication Errors from the Viewpoint of Nurses in Sina Hospital, Tabriz, Iran [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2016 Background and objectives: Medication errors can cause serious problems to patients and health system. Initial results of medication errors increase duration of hospitalization and costs.
Massumeh gholizadeh +4 more
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BMC Pediatrics, 2023 Background Paediatric patients are prone to medication errors, and only a few studies have explored errors in high-alert medications in children. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and nature of medication errors involving high-alert ...
Sini Kuitunen +3 more
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Case report of a medication error
Medicine, 2016 The World Health Organisation recognizes confusing drug names as one of the most common causes of medication errors. Other factors include spelling, phonetic, or packaging similarities.We presented a case report of an inadvertent administration of a non-ocular pharmaceutical product (Novasone lotion) into the eye of an octogenarian individual, and ...
Naunton, Mark +4 more
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Barriers to Reporting Medication Administration Errors as Perceived by Nurses Working at Mansoura University Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2020 Background: Medication errors are one of the top ten preventable causes of harm in health care settings.They pose a serious threat to patient safety and have the potential to cause serious injury or even death.
Eman Abd-Elrahman Mohamed +2 more
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Reporting of Medical Errors in Autopsied Cases
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2017 This report describes the cases autopsied at B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences- Nepal, during the period of two years in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard practice causing the death of the patient. Postmortem examination provides an opportunity to find out the actual cause of death in which the cause of death is ...
Bikash, Sah +4 more
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Reporting and Disclosing Medical Errors [PDF]
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2007 To characterize pediatricians' attitudes and experiences regarding communicating about errors with the hospital and patients' families.Cross-sectional survey.St Louis, Mo, and Seattle, Wash.University-affiliated hospital and community pediatricians and pediatric residents.Anonymous 68-item survey (paper or Web-based) administered between July 2003 and ...
Jane, Garbutt +9 more
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Medication administration errors for older people in long-term residential care [PDF]
, 2011 Background Older people in long-term residential care are at increased risk of medication errors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a computerised barcode medication management system designed to improve drug administrations in residential and ...
Nelson Sara +12 more
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A Prescription for Safety: Medication Error Reporting, Education, and Advocating for Change [PDF]
, 2021 In 1974, pharmacist Michael Cohen learned of a serious adverse event with insulin at a hospital and began sharing information about it with other pharmacists to prevent the error from happening again. Twenty years later, he founded the Institute for Safe
Eugene Myers, Michael R Cohen
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Factors causing medication errors in an electronic reporting system
Nursing Open, 2021 Aim To analyse medication error data from a hospital's electronic reporting system and identify the factors affecting error types and harmfulness. Design A retrospective study.
Seonhee Yoon, Kyeongyae Sohng
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A Survey of Nurses' Perceptions of the Causes of Medication Errors and Barriers to Reporting in Hospitals Affiliated to Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Iran [PDF]
Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2014 Background & Aims: Administration of medications is an important part of treatment. Reporting of medication errors by nurses maintains patient safety and the lack of appropriate reporting can cause serious problems in health systems.
Bahram Hesari +4 more
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