Malpractice in preparation and administration of intravenous (IV) medications has been reported frequently. Inadequate knowledge of nurses has been reported as a cause of such errors. We aimed to evaluate the role of nurses' education via installation of wall posters and giving informative pamphlets in reducing the errors in preparation and administration of intravenous drugs in 2 wards (ICU an...

OBJECTIVE To understand the degree of technological implementation in the processes of preparation and administration of cytostatics drugs that is available in those hospitals of the Autonomous Community of Madrid where intravenous chemotherapy is prepared. METHOD A descriptive observational study through the completion of a survey targeted to the staff responsible for the preparation of this...

Leuprorelin acetate is a luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist and was launched in 1997. It has been used for sex hormone-dependent diseases such as prostate cancer, endometriosis, premenopausal breast cancer, and central precocious puberty. In Japan, a preparation for administration at monthly intervals (Leuprin®) has been available since 1999, and a continuous sustained release...

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...

BACKGROUND In applications of supervised statistical learning in the biomedical field it is necessary to assess the prediction error of the respective prediction rules. Often, data preparation steps are performed on the dataset-in its entirety-before training/test set based prediction error estimation by cross-validation (CV)-an approach referred to as "incomplete CV". Whether incomplete CV can...