Medication Error Prevention – Causative factors and Preventative Strategies
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Medication errors feature firmly in New Zealand’s national data on Serious and Sentinel events. As part of a wider project promoting Medication Safety and Medication Error Prevention at our hospital, a literature search was conducted to identify the incidence of Medication Errors or near misses in the inpatient setting. This summary outlines some of the causative factors identified including both human and systems factors together with strategies for error prevention and medication vigilance.
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