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....

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...

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....

medication errors are one of the important factors that increase fatal injuries to the patients and burden significant economic costs to the health care. an appropriate medical history could reduce errors related to omission of the previous drugs at the time of hospitalization. the aim of this study, as first one in iran, was evaluating the discrepancies between medication histories obtained by...

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...

BACKGROUND Medication error reporting systems in hospitals are faced with the challenge of processing vast numbers of reports which identify a myriad of safety issues. With such large volumes of data and limited resources it makes sense to adopt a prioritisation approach. Several published studies have focused solely on the subset of errors which cause patient harm. The majority of such researc...

Purpose 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 “...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate a statistical analysis for testing the measurement equivalence of a patient safety survey instrument. The survey instrument examined in the present study is the Medication Administration Error Reporting Survey. METHODS Surveys were posted to a random sample of registered nurses in the State of Texas, with 435 nurses completing the survey. The surveys contained questi...

any suboptimum treatment in the management of patients can lead to medication errors (mes) that may increase morbidity and mortality in hospitalized individuals. by establishing well-designed patient care activities within the managed care setting, clinical pharmacists can cooperate with other health care professionals to provide quality care and maximize safety. the aim of this study was to ev...