BACKGROUND The clinical decision support system(CDSS) has potential to improving medication safety. However, the effects of the intervention were conflicting and uncertain. Meanwhile, the reporting and methodological quality of this field were unknown. OBJECTIVE The aim of this overview is to evaluate the effects of CDSS on medication safety and to examine the methodological and reporting qua...

Medication practice encompasses the processes of prescribing, dispensing, preparing, administering, and monitoring the clinical effects of medicines. The mission for hospital pharmacy services is to ensure the safe, effective, and economic uses of medicines. Medication practice measures monitor one or more of these elements. Outcome measures providing quantitative data related to the outcomes o...

This paper examines the impact of an Internet-based method on the collection of medication error occurrence reports. Data for this study was collected for two time periods. The first data collection effort used a paper-based method and produced our baseline data (January 1994 to December 2000). A second dataset was created with information collected from January to December 2003, using a Web-ba...

are all time high. The system of treatment is becoming more hi-tech and sophisticated which isvulnerable to the errors at same time. Effective medication error reporting a necessary tool preventand reduce its occurrence. This study aimed assess knowledge attitude regarding erroramong nursing students.Methods: A Descriptive approach was adopted for study. By Stratified Random sampling 125 Nursin...

BACKGROUND Although electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to provide a foundation for quality and safety algorithms, few studies have measured their impact on automated adverse event (AE) and medical error (ME) detection within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) environment. OBJECTIVE This paper presents two phenotyping AE and ME detection algorithms (ie, IV infiltrations, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency, style and reliability of newspaper reporting of medication errors. DESIGN Content analysis of articles discussing medication errors that were published in the 10 most widely read Australian daily newspapers between January 2005 and January 2010. Main outcome measure(s) Newspaper source, article type, article topic, leading news actors, identified causes...

Results A total of 634 observations made over weekdays and weekends were performed including morning, noon and night shifts. 36.27 % observations (230) included some type of error, a total of 245 medication errors were detected. According to the type of error found: 52 were prescription errors (21.22%), 2 omissions (0.82%), 44 related to administration technique (wrong speed) (17.96%), 10 omiss...

background medication error in hospitals is a major cause of errors, which may cause disruptions in the workflow of the health care systems. the aim of this study was to assess medication errors made by nurses and the relationship of such errors with job and demographic characteristics. material and methods this was a descriptive study on 225 nurses in various hospitals, selected through multis...

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