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Can the Heinrich ratio be used to predict harm from medication errors? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The purpose of this study was to establish whether, for medication errors, there exists a fixed Heinrich ratio between the number of incidents which did not result in harm, the number that caused minor harm, and the number that caused serious harm.
Barber, N   +3 more
core  

Standardising the Classification of Harm Associated with Medication Errors: The Harm Associated with Medication Error Classification (HAMEC)

open access: yesDrug Safety, 2019
Classifying harm associated with a medication error can be time consuming and labour intensive and limited studies undertake this step. There is no standardised process, and few studies that report harm assessment provide adequate methods to allow for ...
Peter J. Gates   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Testing Nurses’ Medication Errors Model based on Reason Human Error Model

open access: yesنشریه پرستاری ایران, 2013
Background & Aim: Medication errors are one of the most common medical errors. Since the performance of a theory in nursing is the extent of its application for description or prediction of evidence and also its potential in handling of the results as an
M Pazokian   +3 more
doaj  

The pattern of non-intercepted medication errors in a university affiliated teaching hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
INTRODUCTION: The primary goal of reducing medication errors is to eliminate errors that reach the patient. We aimed to study the pattern of interception of medication errors along the medication use process.
Cheung, BMY   +3 more
core  

Monitoring medication errors in an internal medicine service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Artículo de publicación SciELOBackground: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at risk of medication errors.
Jirón Aliste, Marcela   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Does Medication Error Reporting Increase With Anonymity? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Self-administration of medication: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of the impact on dispensing errors, perceptions, and satisfaction

open access: yesTherapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, 2020
Background: Our aim was to investigate whether self-administration of medication (SAM) during hospitalization affects the number of dispensing errors, perceptions regarding medication, and participant satisfaction when compared with nurse-led medication ...
Charlotte Arp Sørensen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improvements on the Inhaler [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Inhalers are a commonplace in American health care and deliver crucial drugs to patients with COPD and asthma. Inhaler use has been shown to be unsatisfactory among patients resulting in ineffective medication delivery.
Evensky, Jesse   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Adolescent D-amphetamine treatment in a rodent model of ADHD: pro-cognitive effects during adolescence and cocaine abuse risk during adulthood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is comorbid with cocaine abuse. Whereas initiating ADHD medication in childhood does not alter later cocaine abuse risk, initiating medication during adolescence may increase risk.
Baskin, Britahny M.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Preventing Medication Error Based on Knowledge Management Against Adverse Event [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introductions: Medication error is one of many types of errors that could decrease the quality and safety of healthcare. Increasing number of adverse events (AE) reflects the number of medication errors.
Hastuti, A. P. (Apriyani)   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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