Since there is no detailed hospital based incident reporting system, this study was designed to evaluate the medication errors associated with infusion pumps in intensive care unit (ICU). The investigation was conducted in a Teaching hospital in the form of a prospective, observational study. A sample size of 43 doses administered to ICU patients was chosen to enable reliable estimate of error ...

Problem: When patient safety programs were mandated for Japanese health care institutions, a safety culture, a tool for collecting incident reports, an organizational arrangement for multidisciplinary collaboration, and interventional methods for improvement had to be established. Design: Observational study of effects of new patient safety programs. Setting: Osaka University Hospital, a large ...

The investigation aimed to determine if Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) personnel display characteristic individual patterns of “bias” in decision-making during high-pressure simulated fire incidents. Research using the Quantitative Analysis Situation Awareness (QASA) method revealed that despite expertise, FRS how information is accepted for decision-making, showing either a conservative bias (a...

purpose: nurses can directly influence health services quality and outcomes. they need correct information in due time to provide an effective service for the patient and other healthcare personnel. nursing information system is a subsystem of hospital information system that can help nurses to have better performances. the goal of this study was to evaluate nursing information system of hospit...

Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic strained most of the world’s health care organizations to, and sometimes beyond, their limits. To anticipate, coordinate, mobilize, prioritize hospital resources, Sweden’s regions established regional medical command control teams according to major incident structure. This structure was initially developed based on an all-hazards approach focused primarily s...

Fifty coronary heart disease cases along with an equal number of controls, matched in age and educational levels were studied using Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire, Somatic Inkblot Series I and Command Hospital Questionnaire. They were between 20 and 55 years of age. Obsession and somatic personality traits measured on SIS variables were found to be statistically significant in coronary cases ...

Four years ago, the ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin highlighted a substitution error involving inadvertent injection of epinephrine 1 mg/mL (epinephrine 1:1,000) intended for topical application during an elective, outpatient ENT (ear, nose, throat) procedure. Recently, a similar incident with different underlying circumstances led to the death of a patient. The reporting hospital for the more rece...

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