The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of medication errors happened during the preparation and administration of intravenous (IV) drugs. This study was designed as prospective cross-sectional evaluations by direct unconcealed observation in a setting consisted of orthopedic, general surgery and gastroenterology wards of a teaching hospital. Participants were those patients hospit...

Medication errors are one of the important factors that increase fatal injuries to the patients and burden significant economic costs to the health care. An appropriate medical history could reduce errors related to omission of the previous drugs at the time of hospitalization. The aim of this study, as first one in Iran, was evaluating the discrepancies between medication histories obtained by...

Medication errors are one of the important factors that increase fatal injuries to the patients and burden significant economic costs to the health care. An appropriate medical history could reduce errors related to omission of the previous drugs at the time of hospitalization. The aim of this study, as first one in Iran, was evaluating the discrepancies between medication histories obtained by...

Background and Objectives: Not reporting medication errors by the clinical staff prevent identification of type and frequency of these errors, and thereby developing effective strategies to alleviate the problem. Most investigation of barriers to medication error reporting comes from public hospitals. This study aimed to explore the issue from a nurse’s perspective in private hospital. Methods...

A medication safety incident is defined by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) as: ‘any unintended or unexpected incident which could have or did lead to harm for one or more patients’ (NPSA, 2007:9). These incidents can occur at each stage of the process involved in the delivery of medicines to patients, i.e. prescribing (including transcribing or physician ordering), dispensing, prepara...

abstractmedication errors are commonly encountered in hospital setting. intravenous medications pose particular risks because of their greater complexity and the multiple steps required in their preparation, administration and monitoring. we aimed to determine the rate of errors during preparation and administration phase of intravenous medications and the correlation of these errors with the d...

AbstractMedication errors are commonly encountered in hospital setting. Intravenous medications pose particular risks because of their greater complexity and the multiple steps required in their preparation, administration and monitoring. We aimed to determine the rate of errors during preparation and administration phase of intravenous medications and the correlation of these errors with the d...