The article offers information about ways to avoid medical errors in medication in Great Britain. The report from Medical Defense Union revealed that common cause of errors are wrong prescription of drug or wrong administration of drug. Other reasons...
Medication errors in intravenous drug preparation and administration: a multicentre audit in the UK, Germany and France Previous studies have identified medication errors in preparing and administering intravenous medicines of 13-84% in hospitals in individual countries.To c... DH Cousins,B, Sabatier,...
How to prevent medication errors in the operating room? Take away the human factor. Objectives This study aimed to identify factors related to medication errors in hospitals, provide basic data for medication safety, and to provide evidenc... R Litman - 《British Journal of Anaesthesia》 被引量...
When Jacquelyn Ley shattered her elbow on the soccer field two years ago, her parents set out to find her the best care in Minneapolis. "We drove past five other hospitals to get to the one we wanted," says Carol Ley, M.D., an occupational health physician. Her husband, an orthopedic...
occurs on a daily basis in many hospitals around the world, which begs us to ask the question: if we are living in a world where there are increasing measures and practices in place to reduce human error and provide the best care, why are clinical errors still a thing in this day and...
Nurses who had attended medication training within the last 2 years were less likely to make errors. "The study results underline the need for regularly recurring medication training for nurses to ensure a high level of patient safety—especially in the home care sector, asnursesare the only pro...
Lean Six Sigma implementation and sustainability roadmap for reducing medication errors in hospitals Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) roadmap to guide healthcare practitioners in the implementation of LSS along with a ... Y Trakulsunti,J Antony,JA Douglas...
How to get over with medication errors underestimation? Improving indices of medication errors with focus on intravenous medications in hematopoietic stem ... Background: The administration of intravenous (IV) medications is a technically complicated and error-prone process. Especially, in the ...
Drug dosing recommendations in paediatrics are mainly based on the age and bodyweight of the child. Because of the limited amount of label information, sev
Medication errors account for >40% to 60% of medical errors in human and veterinary medicine.1-3The perianesthetic period (comprising premedication, induction, maintenance, recovery, and postoperative stages) is particularly susceptible to errors due to use of multiple medications, time pressure, and...