"Catering to physician preferences has kept many hospitals from enforcing well-known rules that can reduce errors. These rules seem like basic common sense, but they aren't practiced in a surprising number of hospitals." Leape recently provided some suggestions at an AMA-sponsored conference on ...
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...
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...
overdosing on prescription pharmaceuticals can be caused by differences between the established dose and the effective dose. In extreme cases, the established dose can be even an order of magnitude greater than the active dose. Precise, individual and personalized treatment is needed to reduce overdosi...
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,...
Hospitals are increasingly adopting IT solutions to reduce costs while upholding service quality. According toresearch, the global hospital management software market is projected to experience a CAGR of 19.8% from 2022 to 2027. Given that, the question of how to develop a hospital management system...
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 ...
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...
Trump's interim HHS chief issues agency-wide gag order By Andrea Fox January 24, 2025 How responsible AI can improve health equity and access to care By Bill Siwicki January 24, 2025 AI bias evaluation efforts are uneven across U.S. hospitals ...