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Nurses’ perceptions of medication administration safety in public hospitals in the Gauteng Province: A mixed method study

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2022
Background: Limited data on factors perceived to impact on medication administration errors and possible solutions to such errors in low- and middle-income settings like South Africa is available. Methods: A mixed-methods research design was used.
Alwiena J. Blignaut, Siedine K. Coetzee, Hester C. Klopper, Suria M. Ellis   +3 more
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The impact of transition to a digital hospital on medication errors (TIME study)

npj Digital Medicine, 2023
Digital transformation in healthcare improves the safety of health systems. Within our health service, a new digital hospital has been established and two wards from a neighbouring paper-based hospital transitioned into the new digital hospital.
Teyl Engstrom, Elizabeth McCourt, Martin Canning, Katharine Dekker, Panteha Voussoughi, Oliver Bennett, Angela North, Jason D. Pole, Peter J. Donovan, Clair Sullivan   +9 more
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A Tool for Evaluating Medication Alerting Systems: Development and Initial Assessment

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021
BackgroundIt is well known that recommendations from electronic medication alerts are seldom accepted or acted on by users. Key factors affecting the effectiveness of medication alerts include system usability and alert design ...
Wu Yi Zheng, Bethany Van Dort, Romaric Marcilly, Richard Day, Rosemary Burke, Sepehr Shakib, Young Ku, Hannah Reid-Anderson, Melissa Baysari   +8 more
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Medication Safety: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students and Staff in a Hospital Setting

Pharmacy, 2016
Medication Safety has been an established pharmacy specialty in Australian hospitals since the early 2000s and is now one of the ten Australian hospital accreditation standards.
Linda V. Graudins, Michael J. Dooley
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Understanding medication safety involving patient transfer from intensive care to hospital ward: a qualitative sociotechnical factor study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective To understand the sociotechnical factors affecting medication safety when intensive care patients are transferred to a hospital ward.
Darren M Ashcroft, Denham L Phipps, Mark Jeffries, Richard S Bourne, Jennifer K Jennings, Franki Wilson, Emma Boxall, Helen March   +7 more
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USE OF SAFETY BARRIERS IN THE PREPARATION OF VASOACTIVE DRUGS AND SEDATIVES/ANALGESICS IN PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2018
Objective: to analyze the use of safety barriers in the preparation of vasoactive drugs and sedatives/analgesics. Method: quantitative study, with 204 observations during the preparation of medications in a Pediatric ...
Carla Susana Martinez Julca, Patrícia Kuerten Rocha, Andreia Tomazoni, Bruna Figueiredo Manzo, Sabrina de Souza, Jane Cristina Anders   +5 more
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Medication safety for intensive care patients transferring to a hospital ward: A Hierarchical Task Analysis

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, Denham L Phipps, Jennifer K Jennings, Emma Boxall, Franki Wilson, Helen March, Darren M Ashcroft   +6 more
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Análisis bibliométrico de los sistemas de medicación hospitalarios

Ars Pharmaceutica
Resumen Objetivo: Análisis bibliométrico de la producción científica sobre los sistemas de medicación hospitalaria en bases de datos internacionales. Método: Estudio descriptivo transversal. Los datos se obtuvieron de las bases de datos MEDLINE (PubMed)
Benjamín Palomo-Llinares, Ruben Palomo-Llinares, Javier Sanz-Valero   +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, Isabella R. Silva, Daiana C. Elias, Juliana A. Godinho, André Oliveira Baldoni, Cristina Sanches, Mariana L. Pereira   +6 more
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Hospital pharmacy implementation of a unit dose dispensing system: A qualitative interview study to determine experiences, views and attitudes of nursing staff

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: 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, Theresa Drechsel, Gunda Gittler, Anita Elaine Weidmann   +3 more
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