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Can the Heinrich ratio be used to predict harm from medication errors? [PDF]
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
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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
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Testing Nurses’ Medication Errors Model based on Reason Human Error Model
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
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The pattern of non-intercepted medication errors in a university affiliated teaching hospital [PDF]
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
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Monitoring medication errors in an internal medicine service [PDF]
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
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Does Medication Error Reporting Increase With Anonymity? [PDF]
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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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
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Improvements on the Inhaler [PDF]
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
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Adolescent D-amphetamine treatment in a rodent model of ADHD: pro-cognitive effects during adolescence and cocaine abuse risk during adulthood [PDF]
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
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Preventing Medication Error Based on Knowledge Management Against Adverse Event [PDF]
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
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