Medical errors : Healthcare professionals’ perspective at a tertiary hospital in Kuwait [PDF]
, 2019 Medical errors are of economic importance and can contribute to serious adverse events for patients. Medical errors refer to preventable events resulting from healthcare interactions, whether these events harm the patient or not.
Ahmed, Zamzam +3 more
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What is the epidemiology of medication errors, error-related adverse events and risk factors for errors in adults managed in community care contexts? A systematic review of the international literature [PDF]
, 2018 © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.Objective To investigate the epidemiology of medication errors and ...
Aljadhey, Hisham +6 more
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Medication error reporting – An insight among final-year MBBS students and interns
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: Medication errors can be defined as avoidable errors that can occur while prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, or administering a drug to a patient. Medication errors lead to mortality and morbidity of varying severities in patients.
Praneeth Reddy Onteddu +4 more
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Evaluation of Medication Error Incident Reports at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Pharmacy, 2020 Background: Medications errors (MEs) have been a major concern of healthcare systems worldwide. Voluntary-based incident reporting is the mainstay system to detect such events in many institutions.
Mohammed Aseeri +4 more
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Does Medication Error Reporting Increase With Anonymity? [PDF]
, 2010 Medication errors have been a long and growing problem within all health care areas. Prevention and education is the key to prevent the errors from occurring. All efforts must be made to achieve an overall goal of an error-proof health care society.
McCall, Kristina
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ISMP Medication Error Report Analysis [PDF]
Hospital Pharmacy, 2006 These medication errors have occurred in health care facilities at least once. They will happen again—perhaps where you work. Through education and alertness of personnel and procedural safeguards, they can be avoided. You should consider publishing accounts of errors in your newsletters and/or presenting them in your inservice training programs ...
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BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Background Smart infusion pumps with dose error reduction software can be used to prevent harmful medication errors. The aim of this study was to develop a method for defining and assessing optimal dosing limits in a neonatal intensive care unit’s smart ...
Sini Kuitunen +4 more
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Prescribing errors : what’s the story? [PDF]
, 2001 Although prescribing errors are one of the most common causes of preventable iatrogenic injury, there have been relatively few studies of their incidence and causes. The majority of the studies that have been carried out have been based in secondary care.
Dean, Bryony
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Cardiovascular disease behavioral risk factors among Latinos by citizenship and documentation status. [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND:Studies have observed that recent Latino immigrants tend to have a physical health advantage compared to immigrants who have been in the US for many years or Latinos who are born in the United States.
Alberto, Cinthya K +7 more
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Comparison of a prototype for indications-based prescribing with 2 commercial prescribing systems [PDF]
, 2010 Importance: The indication (reason for use) for a medication is rarely included on prescriptions despite repeated recommendations to do so. One barrier has been the way existing electronic prescribing systems have been designed.
Garabedian, Pamela M +2 more
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