medication errorselderlypharmacist rolequality assuranceMedication errors (MEs) refer to any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer [1]. MEs are one of ...
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...
How can we reduce medication errors in veterinary practice? Errors happen - we are all human. While we can instil a no-blame culture and learn from errors, there are systems we can adopt to reduce the chance of an error occurring as much as possible. This article discusses some of the ...
Definitions of medication errors vary widely in the literature, and prevalence from 2-75% in part because of this lack of consensus. Thus, clarification of the concept is urgently needed. The objective was to develop a clear-cut definition of medication errors and specify relevant error types in...
wrinkles and erectile dysfunction. The other definition is pharmaceuticals used to “satisfy a non-medical or non-health-related goal” (Flower2004). Most of these are used as self-medication. As examples, sildenafil (Viagra), bupropion (managing nicotine addiction) and methadone (opiate substitute...
Preparation Errors After a medication is prescribed, the chain of command switched to a pharmacist or technician who prepares and packages the drugs for the patient. The preparation of medicine is a complex and nuanced process and at this stage is where preparation errors happen. ...
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...
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 ...
200 Medication Errors and How to Avoid Them 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 20 作者: DL Myers 摘要: We have investigated the genetic and physiological control of meiosis in fission yeast. Nutritionally depleted h+/h- diploid cells become irreversibly commited to meiosis immediately prior to...
suggested that medical errors are thethird leading cause of deathin the United States. Many of these deaths are directly related toerrors associated with medications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates1 million visits to emergency roomseach year stem from adverse medication events...