AbstractMedication errors are commonly encountered in hospital setting. Intravenous medications pose particular risks because of their greater complexity and the multiple steps required in their preparation, administration and monitoring. We aimed to determine the rate of errors during preparation and administration phase of intravenous medications and the correlation of these errors with the d...

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...

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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....

Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) based educational intervention to improve liquid medication measuring ability parents/ caregivers. Simultaneously, assess parents’ by dosing instrument type, and identify association various factors with errors. Materials Methods: A multi-centric, randomized controlled interventional study conducted at 2 pe...

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...

Background: Medication error is one of the most common types errors contributing to patient safety incidents in hospitals. In addition their numerous cases and high costs, medication also contribute deaths various countries. Aims: This study describes incidence hospitals countries, determines phase that occurred most, preventive strategies for Methods: was conducted between April 2021-July 2021...

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...