PURPOSE Medication errors remain a threat to patient safety. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among characteristics of the nursing practice environment, nurse staffing levels, nurses' error interception practices, and rates of nonintercepted medication errors in acute care hospitals. DESIGN This study, using a nonexperimental design, was conducted in a s...

introduction: paper-based prescription orders, commonly having numerous medication errors, can increase adverse drug events (ades) and threaten the patient’s safety. computerized physician order entry (cpoe), as an appropriate alternative, can significantly reduce medication errors. this study aimed to investigate the effects of well-designed cpoe in reducing medication errors and ades. method:...

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OBJECTIVES To develop and evaluate the impact of a module discussing the patient's perspective on medication errors in a required medication safety course at a college of pharmacy. METHODS Students were required to read Josie's Story, a true story written by a mother after her daughter died from a medical error, and attend an in-class discussion regarding the book. A questionnaire, which empl...

Schizophrenia is characterized by an abnormal dopamine system, and dopamine blockade is the primary mechanism of antipsychotic treatment. Consistent with the known role of dopamine in reward processing, prior research has demonstrated that patients with schizophrenia exhibit impairments in reward-based learning. However, it remains unknown how treatment with antipsychotic medication impacts the...

BACKGROUND Medication errors are common in many settings and have important ramifications. Although there is growing research on rates and characteristics of medication errors in adult ambulatory settings, less is known about the paediatric ambulatory setting. OBJECTIVE To assess medication error rates in paediatric patients in ambulatory settings. METHODS The authors conducted a prospectiv...

Background. Combination therapy with Isoniazid, a Rifamycin, Pyrazinamide and Ethambutol is the standard of care for active tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Errors in medication administration could lead to inadvertent underdosing and resistance development, or significant side effects with overdosing. Given the recent nationwide focus on medication errors we attempted to establish the incidence of...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the differences in medication dispensing errors between remote telepharmacy sites (pharmacist not physically present) and standard community pharmacy sites (pharmacist physically present and no telepharmacy technology; comparison group). DESIGN Pilot, cross-sectional, comparison study. SETTING North Dakota from January 2005 to September 2008. PARTICIPANTS Pharmacy st...