Error reports and subsequent improvement actions are critical components in patient safety, possibly preventing the same events from occurring again. This study investigates how fairly or differently hospitals respond to healthcare professionals’ medication error reports according to their job types (i.e., physicians, nurses, and pharmacists). Data from a national voluntary medication error rep...

a survey of frequency and type of medical errors done by nursing students of urmia medical sciences university in 1390     ebrahimi rigi tanha z [1] , baghaei r [2] , feizi a [3] *     received: 16 nov, 2011 accepted: 5 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aim: medication errors are among the most common medical errors. nursing students may commit these errors. thus, the aim of this study is t...

Within the past decade medication errors have emerged as a significant patient safety concern and have been shown to account for up to 7,000 deaths per year. 1 One intervention aimed at reducing the incidence of medication errors is improving written or electronic communications, particularly in patient medical charts. In 2004 The Joint Commission introduced the “Do Not Use” list of abbreviatio...

The purpose of these guidelines is to assist practitioners in improving their antineoplastic medication-use system and error-prevention programs. They supplement ASHP’s Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors in Hospitals and address error prevention within diverse health care settings.’ Further, these guidelines provide updated general guidance to include a standard definition of a “medicat...

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE Patient safety is a major concern in healthcare systems worldwide. Although most safety research has been conducted in the inpatient setting, evidence indicates that medical errors and adverse events are a threat to patients in the primary care setting as well. Since information about the frequency and outcomes of safety incidents in primary care is required, the goals of t...

BACKGROUND To prevent medication errors in prescribing, one needs to know their types and relative occurrence. Such errors are a great cause of concern as they have the potential to cause patient harm. The aim of this study was to determine the nature and types of medication prescribing errors in an Indian setting. METHODS The medication errors were analyzed in a prospective observational stu...