نتایج جستجو برای: medication error reporting
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Background and purpose: Many drugs are used in anesthesia that have rapid direct effect on nervous system and cardiovascular system. An error in prescribing them has a lot of risks. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of errors associated with anesthesia and operating room in state hospitals in Mazandaran province. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study a q...
Health information technology (HIT) is generally accepted as the solution for the nation's medical error crisis. Although limited studies suggest the importance of using HIT in the process of medication management, research has failed to adequately describe how HIT actually works in capturing medication error data and improving patient safety within a healthcare system.1-3 The aim of our study ...
Background Medication errors are the single most preventable cause of patient harm that occurs in a medical facility. From prescription to administration, there is a vast amount of opportunity for errors to occur. This emphasizes the need to evaluate the extent of medication error in the elderly as medication errors are estimated to be the fifth most common cause of death among hospitalised eld...
OBJECTIVES To (i) compare medication errors identified at audit and observation with medication incident reports; (ii) identify differences between two hospitals in incident report frequency and medication error rates; (iii) identify prescribing error detection rates by staff. DESIGN Audit of 3291 patient records at two hospitals to identify prescribing errors and evidence of their detection ...
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...
Most nurses first hear the phrase “medication error” during their basic professional education. Concern for jeopardizing patient safety by committing a medication error traditionally has been instilled deeply into student nurses. Medication errors are a very real and frightening event in health care, and they deserve the concern associated with them. A 2000 report by the Institute of Medicine (...
Introduction: Nurses have an undeniable role in preventing nursing and medical errors, and evaluating their attitude towards error reporting, as a strategic indicator, can help nursing managers in preventing errors and improving patient safety and quality of nursing care. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the attitude of nurses towards the occurrence and reporti...
The use of medication remains the most common intervention in health care. The complexity of both medication use and the medication management process, especially in the in-patient setting, create a significant risk for hospitalized patients. Despite the widespread recognition of the hazards that medication use poses to patients, there are no widely accepted or standardized methods to measure t...
BACKGROUND Little is known about the views of faculty members who train medical students concerning open disclosure. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the views of faculty in a medical school on: 1 what constitutes a medical error and the severity of such an error in relation to medication use or diagnosis; 2 information giving following such an adverse event, based on...
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