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Human Factors in Healthcare, 2022 Aims and objectives: To identify the task steps involved in intensive care patients transferring to a hospital ward and their potential for human errors, and to prioritise areas to improve medication safety. Background: Intensive care patients recovering
Richard S Bourne +6 more
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Outcome of involuntary medication in a state hospital system
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1991 Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the course of involuntarily administered medication in a state hospital population. Method: The authors retrospectively examined the records of all 51 involuntarily medicated patients in six state hospitals in New York City in a single calendar year.
Cournos, Francine +2 more
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Scenery of Brazilian studies on medication errors: an integrative review
Revista Brasileira de Farmácia Hospitalar e Serviços de Saúde, 2019 The objective of this integrative review was to identify studies conducted in Brazil that address the occurrence of medication errors in a hospital environment.
Jéssica A. Aquino +6 more
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Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social PharmacyBackground: Evolving automated technologies in the dispensing process promise effective solution to reduce medication error rates. The Unit-Dose-Dispensing-System (UDDS) is an essential element of the “Closed Loop Medication Management System” that ...
Theodora Steindl-Schönhuber +3 more
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Nursing Reports, 2022 Safe medication management is particularly challenging among polymedicated home-dwelling older adults after hospital discharge. This study aimed to identify and categorise the stressors experienced and reconstitution strategies adopted by older adults ...
Filipa Pereira +4 more
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Out‐of‐hospital ketamine: review of a growing trend in patient care
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020 Ketamine is a unique medication with a long history of use in the emergency department. Out‐of‐hospital indications for ketamine have been explored and are currently expanding in some systems.
Bryan B. Kitch
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele +19 more
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MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION – NURSING WORKLOAD IN CLINICAL INPATIENT UNITS
Cogitare Enfermagem, 2018 Objectives: To verify the number and types of drugs prescribed and administered by nursing technicians in inpatient units and discuss its implications for nursing workload and patient safety. Method: exploratory cross-sectional
Angélica Kreling +1 more
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Preventing the medication errors in hospitals: A qualitative study
International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2020 Background and purpose: Administering drugs is one of the primary nursing acts in hospital wards and medication errors are one of the worst errors among nurses leading to unpleasant results for patients. Thus, this study aimed to identify ways to prevent
Alireza Salar +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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