prevention of medication errors in neonatal intensive care units (nicus) is of paramount importance due to age-specific and physiological conditions of neonates. this study aimed to evaluate the risk of medication prescription and administration via failure mode and effects analysis (fmea), which was carried out at the research and medical teaching center of imam reza hospital in mashhad, iran....

introduction: since prescription is a way of communication between the pharmacist, physician and patient, inattention to its principles may result in mis-consumption or incomplete use of the medicine, drug interactions, and increased probable adverse effects. therefore, this research tried to investigate physicians' commitment to principles of prescription writing for outpatients insured by med...

Three independent methods of study of prescription errors led to the development of a classification of errors based on the potential effects and inconvenience to patients, pharmacists and doctors. Four types of error are described: type A (potentially serious to patient); type B (major nuisance - pharmacist/doctor contact required); type C (minor nuisance - pharmacist must use professional jud...

British Journal of General Practice, May 2014 259 pRevalenCe, natuRe, and Causes of pResCRIbIng eRRoRs In geneRal pRaCtICe Over the past 10 years our team has been involved in a wide range of studies of prescribing in general practice, but one we feel that has really made a difference is the PRACtICe study, which was funded by the General Medical Council.1,2 In this study we took a sample of 15...

Packet losses usually result in frame losses in low bit rate video streaming over error prone networks. The whole frame error concealment (EC) algorithm is then necessary for the decoder to improve the video quality. A refined bidirectional motion vector extrapolation was developed to improve the motion vector estimation precision by alleviating the effect of overlapped and hole regions with an...

BACKGROUND Prescription writing is one of the most important and basic skills that a doctor needs. Prescribing errors may have various detrimental consequences. Hence, the components of a prescription should be clearly written, free of drug related omission (incomplete prescription), commission (incorrect information) and integration errors, without nonofficial abbreviations, and fulfil the leg...

Background: The focus of healthcare technology now, is to improve the quality care and safety patients, a key component which medication-related errors. Medication errors result in an increase rate hospital admissions expenditure for patient. Thus, it important identify cause these develop solution curb their occurrence. Materials &Methods:A prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted ...

BACKGROUND/AIM The technique of photoretinoscopy is unique in being able to measure the dynamics of the oculomotor system (ocular accommodation, vergence, and pupil size) remotely (working distance typically 1 metre) and objectively in both eyes simultaneously. The aim of this study was to evaluate clinically the measurement of refractive error by a recent commercial photoretinoscopic device, t...

Background and objectives: Approaches to translating medical error information into effective interventions have not been well described. The Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety (ASIPS) Collaborative developed a mixed-methods approach to analyze medical errors to (1) develop an initial conceptual framework for depicting specific clinical processes at risk for error, (2) validate the...

AIM To study if medication error rate decreased as a consequence of a simple observation process of registering its occurrence. METHODS Prescription and transcription processes were prospectively registered along two different period of time in a level III regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a pilot phase, aimed to know the baseline drug error rate and a phase I, a pre-intervention phase, ...