Interruptions and distractions are significant factors in medication errors in the pharmacy environment. Although only a small percentage of these errors cause harm, medication errors need to be minimised in an effort to improve patient safety. In an attempt to reduce the number of interruptions, the inpatient pharmacy at Auckland District Health Board plans to implement an information system t...

Im Krankenhaus wird der weit überwiegende Anteil an Verschreibungen von Berufsanfängern geleistet. Allerdings sind Berufsanfänger auch die Gruppe, die dabei auch am meisten Fehler begehen. Ein Großteil der Verschreibungsfehler läßt sich in bekannte Kategorien einordnen und mit vergleichsweise einfachen Maßnahmen vermeiden, weshalb Verschreiben im klinischen Kontext bereits im Studium vermittelt...

OBJECTIVES To understand and classify causal factors linked to medication errors and to define opportunities for systematic changes to improve the safety of prescription medication use. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS All recipients of liver, kidney, and/or pancreas allografts followed up by an academic medical center and encountered in the acute care facility, outpatient clinic, or by tele...

BACKGROUND Medication errors are common but most often preventable events in any health care setup. Studies on medication errors involving chemotherapeutic drugs are limited. OBJECTIVE We studied three aspects of medication errors - prescription, transcription and administration errors in 500 cancer patients who received ambulatory cancer chemotherapy at a resource limited setting government ...

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the incidence of prescribing errors and there has been no work on this in a single specialty ophthalmic hospital. Knowing where and when errors are most likely to occur is generally felt to be the first step in trying to prevent these errors. This study is an attempt in, the setting of an eye hospital, to try to identify and attribute these medication...

Introduction Drug prescription mistakes appear to be a major source of iatrogenic damage to the in-patients. A study has estimated that errors that related to drugs are seen in one-fifth of doses given to patients in-patients.1 Drug prescription mistakes were found to account for approximately one-fourth of drug-related errors.2,3 A lot of drug errors have been reported in the similar articles ...