To cite: Franklin BD. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bmjqs-2014-002924 Medication error research typically focuses on just one stage of the medication use process: prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administration or monitoring. Such simplification is required so that manageable boundaries can be set around the research, and to make it easi...

background medication errors (mes) are the most common types of medical errors which effecting on pediatric safety. for decrease mes, we should to have information about difference aspects of mes. we have no study which assessed the frequency, types and causes of mes made by pediatric nurses, in iran. material and methods this was a cross-sectional study, which performed on 53 pediatric nurses....

BACKGROUND In 2006, the National Inpatient Medication Chart (NIMC) was introduced as a uniform medication chart in Australian public hospitals with the aim of reducing prescription error. PURPOSE The rate of regular medication prescription error in the NIMC was assessed. METHODS Data was collected using the NIMC Audit Tool and analyzed with respect to causes of error per medication prescrip...

Medication errors are among the most common medical errors in the hospitals. Transcription error is a specific type of medication errors and is due to data entry error that is commonly made by the human operators. This study was designed to detect transcription errors in a teaching hospital in Tehran. Direct observational method was used in this study. Error was defined as any deviation in tran...

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine whether health care aides (HCAs) could safely assist in medication administration in long-term care (LTC). Method: We obtained medication error reports from LTC facilities that involve HCAs in oral medication assistance and we analyzed Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) data from these facilities. Standard ratings of error severity were "...

Of all care areas mentioned in medication error reports submitted from August 1, 2009, through July 31, 2010, to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, the emergency department (ED) is the third most commonly mentioned, appearing in 6% of all medication error reports. The predominant medication error event types in the ED include wrong dose/ overdosage, drug omission, and wrong drug. The pr...

OBJECTIVE to meta-analyze studies that have assessed the medication errors rate in pediatric patients during prescribing, dispensing, and drug administration. SOURCES searches were performed in the PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Trip databases, selecting articles published in English from 2001 to 2010. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS a total of 25 original studies that met inclusion criteria were se...

• Objective: To describe efforts in medication error prevention and reduction at an academic children’s