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...

With our ageing society, the group of lesscomputer literate patients is currently growing. Thus, all treatments involving patient cooperation need to address this type of patient into the procedure, well aware of human short comings in punctuality and reliability. We propose to ameliorate these error sources by making use of computerized time stamps and a sophisticated handheld finger-tip user-...

In order to improve the overall safety of chemotherapy, safety-protecting net was established for the whole process from prescribing by physicians, transcribing by nurses, dispensing by pharmacists to administering by nurses. The information system was used to check and monitor whole process of administration and related sheets were computerized to simplify the paperwork. Keywords—Chemotherapy,...

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

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...