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A medication error

Insight - the Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, 1996
A patient had inadvertently mistaken her son's diflorasone diacetate ointment for gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment and applied it to her eye in error. Although no serious consequences resulted from the instillation of the topical corticosteroid, this incident provides another example of mistaken medication tubes.
C A, Servodidio, D H, Abramson
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Medication error prevalence

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2010
PurposeHealthcare risk epidemiology identifies medication error as the commonest cause of adverse effects on patients. Medication error can occur at any phase of the complex medication process so prevalence rates need to be estimated at each drug treatment phase: prescription, transcription and administration along with their clinical repercussions ...
Ana Belén, Jiménez Muñioz   +5 more
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Reducing Medication Errors

American Journal of Medical Quality, 2001
This article describes initiatives one institution developed to improve systems for detecting and preventing adverse medication events. Our discussion focuses on issues regarding the frequency and incidence of medication errors, the trials of traditional versus anonymous incident reporting, and the efforts to improve systems rather than placing blame ...
P M, Cox, S, D'Amato, D J, Tillotson
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Medical Errors

Hematology, 2005
AbstractFollowing the 2000 report of the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human, which documented that as many as 98,000 people in this country die of medical errors every year, medical, hospital, and governmental agencies began to consider changes in hospital systems.
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Medication errors

Emergency Nurse, 2007
The authors of this study wanted to test their idea that, because medication errors are common in EDs and because there can be large variations in child ren's weight, such errors are more likely to occur among paediatric patients.
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Patients' Medication Errors

International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare, 2013
Patients' awareness and informed involvement may reduce the prevalence of patients' errors. The aim of this study is to identify the occurrence of patients' medication errors in one of the leading tertiary care educational superspeciality hospitals in Iran during one year from October 2010 to October 2011. This is a retrospective study.
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani   +2 more
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Confronting Medical Error

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2020
A new book makes the case for ‘a culture shift of epic proportions.’
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Managing Medical Errors

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume, 2009
A patient with severe arthritis of the hip and shortening of the ipsilateral extremity undergoes hip replacement surgery with correction of the limb-length discrepancy. At the time of the postoperative examination, he is found to have a complete foot drop.
James D, Capozzi, Rosamond, Rhodes
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