Avoidable medication errors occur in 2 to 14 percent of patients admitted to hospitals, according to several studies. But because most errors don't result in injury, physicians are complacent, says Lucian L. Leape, a pediatric surgeon and professor of health policy at the Harvard School 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...
More than 8,000 deaths due to medication errors in hospitals; More than 21,000 deaths due to other errors in hospitals; More than 80,000 deaths due to infections in hospitals; More than 108,000 deaths due to negative effects of drugs. A study by Johns Hopkins patient safety expertspubl...
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 ...
How Can Information Technology Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medication Errors in Children\"s Health Care? BackgroundMedication errors are common, costly, and injurious to patients.ObjectiveTo review the role of information technology in decreasing pediatric med... R Kaushal,KN Barker,DW Bates -...
to reduce overdosing. Pharmaceutical doses should be calculated individually per patient mass, sex, health, age, genetics and sensitivity. Such a solution is already starting around the world (Cree2013; Cutica et al.2014; Cenci2016). Less hazardous active ingredients that are equally fit to ...
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...
Causes of medication errors and methods to reduce errors Causes of medicationerrorsand methods toreduceerrorsNurses have an ethical and legal responsibility to assess a patient’s need for a drug‚ administer it safely and correctly and evaluate the response to it. They should always make pat...
Conclusion: Medication errors frequently occur during the preparation and administration of IV medications in the HSCT setting. Using precise detection methods, denominators, and checklists, we identified the most error-prone steps during this process, for which there is an urgent need to implement ...
17.6% of medical errors were caused by medication errors where the wrong medication was administered in the wrong dose, and none of the nurses filled out... K Zeliha,K Dilek 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 Technologic Advances to Reduce Medication-Related Errors The Institute of Medicine estimates that...