Strategies to reduce dosing errors

Strategies to reduce medication errors with reference to older adults

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Strategies to reduce medication errors with reference to older adults.

BACKGROUND In Australia, around 59% of the general population uses prescription medication with this number increasing to about 86% in those aged 65 and over and 83% of the population over 85 using two or more medications simultaneously. A recent report suggests that between 2% and 3% of all hospital admissions in Australia may be medication related with older Australians at higher risk because...

Color coding to reduce errors.

Quality Improvement Checklists to Reduce Diagnostic Errors

Diagnostic errors are common and can often be traced to physicians’ cognitive biases and failed heuristics (mental shortcuts). A great deal is known about how these faulty thinking processes lead to error, but little is known about how to prevent them. Faulty thinking plagues other high-risk, high-reliability professions, such as airline pilots and nuclear plant operators, but these professions...

Designing Automation to Reduce Operator Errors