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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Violence Against Health Care Workers: A Silent Problem [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2012 Background and objectives: Considering the importance of process improvement and support system,we tried to take a step to clarify logistics processes and initiate quality improvement in health and nutrition faculty of Tabriz Medical Science University ...
Vahideh Ghorbani sani +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Effective Medical Code Prediction via Label Internal Alignment [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The clinical notes are usually typed into the system by physicians. They are typically required to be marked by standard medical codes, and each code represents a diagnosis or medical treatment procedure. Annotating these notes is time consuming and prone to error.
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Oversampling errors in multimodal medical imaging are due to the Gibbs effect [PDF]
, 2021 To analyse multimodal 3-dimensional medical images, interpolation is required for resampling which - unavoidably - introduces an interpolation error. In this work we consider three segmented 3-dimensional images resampled with three different neuroimaging software tools for comparing undersampling and oversampling strategies and to identify where the ...
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Medication errors in the Middle East countries: a systematic review of the literature [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Medication errors are a significant global concern and can cause serious medical consequences for patients. Little is known about medication errors in Middle Eastern countries.
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Medical errors in neurosurgery
Surgical Neurology International, 2014 Medical errors cause nearly 100,000 deaths per year and cost billions of dollars annually. In order to rationally develop and institute programs to mitigate errors, the relative frequency and costs of different errors must be documented. This analysis will permit the judicious allocation of scarce healthcare resources to address the most costly errors ...
Rolston, John +5 more
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A Framework for Assurance of Medication Safety using Machine Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Medication errors continue to be the leading cause of avoidable patient harm in hospitals. This paper sets out a framework to assure medication safety that combines machine learning and safety engineering methods. It uses safety analysis to proactively identify potential causes of medication error, based on expert opinion.
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Errors and discrepancies in the administration of intravenous infusions: a mixed methods multihospital observational study [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction Intravenous medication administration has traditionally been regarded as error prone, with high potential for harm. A recent US multisite study revealed few potentially harmful errors despite a high overall error rate.
Bates, David W. +13 more
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Understanding the Nature of Medication Errors in an ICU with a Computerized Physician Order Entry System [PDF]
, 2014 Objectives: We investigated incidence rates to understand the nature of medication errors potentially introduced by utilizing a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system in the three clinical phases of the medication process: prescription ...
Bates, David W. +4 more
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