A more tractable question may be which children represent the most immediate concern among public health, medical, and nursing professionals. These data suggest that the NHANES/NHIS prevalence estimates may be high if used to answer this question. Considering the children for whom medications were ...
Medication administration error is a medication error that occurs while administering a medication to a patient. A variety of factors make pediatrics more susceptible to medication errors and its consequences. In low-income countries, like Ethiopia, ther
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Up to 59% of elderly patients make errors while taking their prescriptions, and nearly 20% of hospital admissions of the elderly are attributed to self-made errors in taking medication [13]. Therefore, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that prescribe...
MRPs have not been formally investigated in decompensated liver disease, but prevalence is thought to be high. Up to 12% of medical admissions annually in Australia have been associated with MRPs [15]; however, the risk of medication errors may be further compounded in people with advanced ...
1Institute of Nursing Science, Department Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland;2Department of Theragnostik, Haematology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland;3Academic Center for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Belgium...
Medication errors and adverse drug events are universal problems contributing to patient harm but the magnitude of these problems in Africa remains unclear
Carer medication administration errors have been reported to occur frequently [17,32]. This cohort differs from other marginalised groups because, for all the others, the problems experienced relate to the person’s self-use or non-use of medication, whilst for informal carers, the identified ...