Background and purpose: Medical errors are one of the most common threats to patient safety. Medication errors have a number of consequences, including the increase in patient mortality, length of stay, and healthcare costs. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted by Food and Drug Deputy of Mazandaran University on medication errors reported received from covered hospitals during 201...

Packet level forward error correction (FEC) coding has been widely accepted as an efficient way of reducing the number of retransmissions and recovering from packet losses for reliable multicast in satellite networks. While there has been a significant effort in defining packet level FEC schemes that detail the structure, organization and delivery of the encoding packets, little attention has b...

BACKGROUND In oncology, an important parameter of safety is the potential treatment error in hospitals. The analyzed hypothesis is that of subcutaneous therapies would provide a superior safety benefit over intravenous therapies through fixed-dose administrations, when analyzed with trastuzumab and rituximab. METHODS For the calculation of risk levels, the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis app...

the effect of test on teachers, students, and their classroom behaviors has ever been amenable to scholarly studies. to explore such an effect, 20 professors offering ma tefl preparation courses and 30 candidates received plsp and apals inventories. paired-sample t-tests revealed significant differences. however, the respective componential multivariate anova revealed non-significant and signif...

UNLABELLED The objective of this project was to ensure correct radiopharmaceutical administration through the use of a bar code system that links patient and drug profiles with on-site information management systems. This new combined system would minimize the amount of manual human manipulation, which has proven to be a primary source of error. The most common reason for dosing errors is impro...

OBJECTIVE Most patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) have problems in using oral medication or ingesting solid forms of drugs. Selecting the most suitable dosage form in such patients is a challenge. The current study was conducted to assess the frequency and types of errors of oral medication administration in patients with enteral feeding tubes or suffering swallowing problems. ME...

INTRODUCTION Administering medication is one of the high risk areas for any health professional. It is a multidisciplinary process, which begins with the doctor's prescription, followed by review and provision by a pharmacist, and ends with preparation and administration by a nurse. Several studies have highlighted a high medication incident rate at several healthcare institutions. METHODS Ou...