frequency of medication errors and its reporting according to self- report by nurses in hospitals of khoy city shams sh[1], bagherieh f[2], feizi a[3], baghaei r[4], hashemlo l[5] received: 4 may , 2012 accepted: 19 jun , 2012  abstract:background & aims: medication errors are one of the important challenges of health care systems worldwide. it is also one of the threatening factors of patient ...

Writing is considered one of the most difficult skills in EFL/ESL. Thus, meticulous recognition and classification of students’ errors in certain contexts is a worthwhile endeavor which provides us with both diagnostic and prognostic power. Accordingly, a total of 430 students in 15 English writing classes held during 12 consecutive semesters in a private university in central Taiwan were the s...

Correct prescription writing habits could have a great influence on the fate of drug therapy as well as the health of patients. One of the major types of errors in prescriptions is the "errors of commission". In this study attempts were made to examine 519 prescriptions of the internal ward of Ayatollah Taleghani teaching hospital over a period of 3 months in terms of the nature and extent of t...

Background: Medication errors are considered to be the most significant safety threatening factors for the patients in hospital, to which many factors contribute. Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the role of associated factors in the incidence of medication errors in the psychiatric ward of Razi Hospital in Tabriz from the perspectives of nurses in 2017. Methods: In this desc...

Background: Intravenous (IV) injection of drugs is one of the most common methods of drug prescription in hospitals, which is a complex, potentially hazardous and erroneous method; accordingly, it requires control methods to reduce the potential risks. This study focused on determining the frequency and types of different medication errors while preparing and administering mostly used IV drugs ...

Correct prescription writing habits could have a great influence on the fate of drug therapy as well as the health of patients. One of the major types of errors in prescriptions is the "errors of commission". In this study attempts were made to examine 519 prescriptions of the internal ward of Ayatollah Taleghani teaching hospital over a period of 3 months in terms of the nature and extent of t...

The present study explores the effect of providing different types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on 79 Iranian EFL learners’ writings over time through a pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test. In this way, the study first aims to investigate the extent to which different types of WCF result in improved accuracy in writing over a period of two months, and then maintain...

research error in medical sciences studies and their control strategies khorami markaney a , yagmayee f , habibzadeh h received: 22 march, 2010 accepted: 11 july,. 2010 abstract background & aims: one of the important goals of research studies especially in medical sciences is accurate measurement of outcome occurrence. despite numerous efforts to reduce accuracy errors, they still occur. the a...