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Incidences and classification of medication errors - a case study [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Medical Practice, 2023
Background. The Medication errors (MEs) severely affect ill health or death and have a substantial financial effect on the patient and health care organization.
Soumen Mukherjee, Debarshi Mukherjee, Waikhom Somraj Singh   +2 more
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Drug errors related to self-medication in Morocco [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Introduction: Self-medication refers to the act of obtaining a drug without a prescription in order to use it for treatment. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiological characteristics of drug errors related to self-medication in ...
Jadda Sara, Hami Hinde, Rhalem Naima, Coulibaly Sanou Khô, Mokhtari Abdelrhani, Soulaymani-Bencheikh Rachida, Soulaymani Abdelmajid   +6 more
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Medication Errors and Error Chains Involving High-Alert Medications in a Paediatric Hospital Setting: A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Reported Medication Safety Incidents. [PDF]

Drugs Real World Outcomes
Background Paediatric patients are prone to medication errors, but an in-depth understanding of errors involving high-alert medications remains limited.
Kuitunen S, Saksa M, Holmström AR.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Medication errors in a parturient: A huge cost to two lives

Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 2022
Medication errors in a parturient can be devastating as two lives are involved. Owing to the absence of critical incident reporting in parurients in multiple countries of the world, these errors are underreported.
Manpreet Kaur, Bharat Yalla, Anjan Trikha   +2 more
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Validation of a method to assess the severity of medication administration errors in Brazil: a study protocol

Journal of Public Health Research, 2022
Background: Medication errors are frequent and have a high economic and social impact and is critical to know their severity. A variety of tools exist to measure and classify the harms associated with medication errors, but few are internationally ...
Lindemberg Assunção-Costa, Charleston Ribeiro Pinto, Juliana Ferreira Fernandes Machado, Cleidenete Gomes Valli, Luís Eugênio Portela Fernandes de Souza, Bryony Dean Franklin   +5 more
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Medical Errors and Patient Safety: A Curriculum Guide for Teaching Medical Students and Family Practice Residents

MedEdPORTAL, 2005
This resource is a curriculum guide designed to teach medical students and family practice residents about medical errors and patient safety—a glaring deficit in medical education.
Joseph Halbach, Laurie Sullivan
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Evaluation of the medication process in pediatric patients: a meta-analysis

Jornal de Pediatria (Versão em Português), 2014
Objective: to meta‐analyze studies that have assessed the medication errors rate in pediatric patients during prescribing, dispensing, and drug administration.
Despina Koumpagioti, Christos Varounis, Eleni Kletsiou, Charalampia Nteli, Vasiliki Matziou   +4 more
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Medication errors

Безопасность и риск фармакотерапии, 2022
The article presents the descri ption of the causes, detection methodsand approaches to the prevention of medication ...
B. K. Romanov, I. A. Toropova, E. Y. Kolesnikova   +2 more
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Improving accuracy of medication identification in an older population using a medication bottle color symbol label system

BMC Family Practice, 2011
Background The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate and refine an adjuvant system of color-specific symbols that are added to medication bottles and to assess whether this system would increase the ability of patients 65 years of age or older in ...
Cardarelli Roberto, Mann Christopher, Fulda Kimberly G, Balyakina Elizabeth, Espinoza Anna, Lurie Sue   +5 more
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Medication transcription errors in hospitalized patient settings: a consensual study in the Palestinian nursing practice

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Medication transcription errors (MTEs) are frequent in hospitalized patient settings. Definitions and scenarios that represent potential MTEs in the Palestinian nursing practice were not previously approached using formal consensus techniques.
Ramzi Shawahna, Abbas Abbas, Ameed Ghanem   +2 more
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