Background: Medication interactions are associated with various unwanted adverse drug reactions. Medication Reconciliation involves a process in which a complete list of patient's previously prescribed medications are recorded and subsequently evaluated within the context of concomitantly prescribed medications and present medical condition during the hospitalization. Method: Medical records ...

Background: Medication interactions are associated with various unwanted adverse drug reactions. Medication Reconciliation involves a process in which a complete list of patient's previously prescribed medications are recorded and subsequently evaluated within the context of concomitantly prescribed medications and present medical condition during the hospitalization. Method: Medical records ...

Background: A medication error is defined as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate use patient harm while the in control of healthcare professional, patient, consumer." might occur at any point during medication-use process, such when prescribing medicines, dispensing, and drug taken by patient. Objectives: This review focusing on types errors (MEs) which commonly occur...

BACKGROUND About one third of unwanted reported medication consequences are due to medication errors, resulting in one-fifth of hospital injuries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was determined formal and informal medication errors of nurses and the level of importance of factors in refusal to report medication errors among nurses. PATIENTS AND METHODS The cross-sectional study was done on...

Patient identification (ID) errors occurring during the medication administration process can be fatal. The aim of this study is to determine whether differences in nurses' behaviors and visual scanning patterns during the medication administration process influence their capacities to identify patient ID errors. Nurse participants (n = 20) administered medications to 3 patients in a simulated ...