Medication errors can cause substantial harm to patients. Automated patient medication systems with RFID technology is purposely used to reduce the medication error, to improve the patient safety, to provide personalized patient medication and identification and also to provide counterfeit protection to the patients. In order to enhance medication safety for patients we propose a new dynamic ID...

Medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. We assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in Tehran. We also investigated the effect of Emergency Department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful m...

Poor medication management practices can lead to serious erosion of health care quality and safety. The DHHS Medication Management Use Case outlines methods for the exchange of electronic health information to improve medication management practices. In this case report, the authors describe initial development of Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) services to support the Medication M...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore the relationship of workarounds related to the implementation of an electronic medication administration record and medication safety practices in five Midwestern nursing homes. DESIGN As a part of a larger study, this qualitative evaluation was conducted to identify workarounds associated with the implementation of an electronic medication administratio...

background: the main professional goal of nurses is to provide and improve human health. medication errors are among the most common health threatening mistakes that affect patient care. such mistakes are considered as a global problem which increases mortality rates, length of hospital stay, and related costs. this study was conducted to evaluate the types and causes of nursing medication erro...

BACKGROUND While much research has been conducted on medication safety, few of these studies have addressed primary care, despite the high volume of prescribing and dispensing of medicines that occurs in this setting. Those studies that have examined primary care dispensing emphasised the need to understand the role of sociotechnical factors (that is, the interactions between people, tasks, equ...