Objective: Medication error is the most common errors in a hospital setting and serious issue that intimidate safety of patient may cause mortality morbidity. The aim this study to explore rate medication reporting an Indonesian hospital.
 Methods: This retrospective descriptive. research was conducted at dr. Soeradji Tirtonegoro General Hospital Medical Center from January June 2020. repo...

OBJECTIVE The administration of chemotherapy forms a major part of the clinical role of oncology nurses. When a mistake is made during chemotherapy administration, admitting and reporting the error timely could save the lives of cancer patients. The main objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of oncology nurses about why chemotherapy administration errors are not reported. METH...

IMPORTANCE Medication computerised provider order entry (CPOE) has been shown to decrease errors and is being widely adopted. However, CPOE also has potential for introducing or contributing to errors. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are to (a) analyse medication error reports where CPOE was reported as a 'contributing cause' and (b) develop 'use cases' based on these reports to test ...

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...

QUALITY ISSUE Omitting time-critical medications leads to delays in treatment and may result in patient harm. INITIAL ASSESSMENT Published studies show that omission of prescribed medication doses is common. Although most are inconsequential, up to 86% of omitted medications place patients at some risk of harm. SOLUTION Funding was obtained to develop a medication safety package to facilita...

Background: Medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. We introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. Case: A 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. Unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some preven...