medication error
MEDICATION ERROR – THE CHALLENGING CONCERN
... Medication Error is one of the most common causes of un-intentional ...to Medication errors are more than ...with Medication errors which are ...reducing error rates, those provided by ...
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Proportion of medication error reporting and associated factors among nurses: a cross sectional study
... to medication errors as 1 to 2% [16], 9 to 13% [2], 29% [17], and as high of ...one medication error, making the rate of er- rors ...19.5 medication errors that the nurses acknowledged within ...
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Using total quality management approach to improve patient safety by preventing medication error incidences**
... Since medication errors are a global threat for healthcare workers’ and patients’ safety we tried in our study to apply Six Sigma set of steps (DMAIC) integrated into TQM tools to recommend a new technique to ...
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Barriers to Medication Error Reporting from Nurses’ Perspective: A Private Hospital Survey
... to medication error reporting were ranked based on their impor- tance scores, and clustered into three major ranking categories: very important, moderately important, and slightly ...
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Medication Reconciliation and Medication Error Prevention in an Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital
... the medication reconciliation and medication error prevention in an emergency department of a tertiary care ...whom medication reconciliation was done were ...home medication charts ...
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Ranking Factors Contributing to Medication Error Incidents in Private Hospital: A Nurse’s Perspective
... There are several clinical factors contributing to the medication error incidents (MEI). According to Tissot et al. (2003), nurses’ heavy workload and their illeg- ible and incomplete prescriptions are ...
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Influence of Medication Error among Medical and Non-medical Students in a Malaysian University
... Worldwide medication error is a common problem and in- appropriate use of medicinal drugs is a major issue of drug ...the medication is directly from pharma- cies ...
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Getting the truth : a qualitative comparative analysis of rural nurses' attitude to safety climate and their views of reporting a hypothetical medication error
... To enhance transparency and reduce researcher bias, for the first two sections existing tools were used. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) (Sexton et al., 2006) was used for collecting data regarding the ...
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Medication error management around the globe: An overview
... over medication errors by building a comprehensive and integrated global medication error reporting system is complex, futuristic and comprised of many challenges and ...on medication ...
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Infusion Medication Error Reduction by Two-Person Verification: A Quality Improvement Initiative
... Data were collected via standardized questionnaires developed by the QI team to ascertain whether an infusion pump was used and whether an error was found and rectified. The answers were collected as binary ...
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Medication Error Prevention by Clinical Pharmacists in Two Children's Hospitals
... Although half of the er- rant orders were written for patients on the pedi- atric wards (Fig 1), the error rate per 100-patient days was greater for pediatric intensive care unit patient[r] ...
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Medication error: The role of health care professionals, sources of error and prevention strategies
... Improve Medication Safety: The first step to avoid MEs is to increase medication safety by providing all the necessary information which includes reference books, journals, and tools like internet in the ...
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Overcoming medication errors
... a medication to a wrong patient is something that happens even till today, the best way to overcome this is by asking the patient their name and to confirm that before the medication is ...the ...
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Medication Errors in the Home: A Multisite Study of Children With Cancer
... reviewed medication bottles where, because of changes in dose, the medication label no longer re fl ected the current dose of the med- ...the medication according to the label, rather than instructed, ...
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Application of Lean Six Sigma in Reduction of Medication Errors
... for medication errors; the nursing literature often highlights medication error rates found in research studies and reports, and attributes these to nursing administration of drugs [3, ...in ...
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Medication administration error: magnitude and associated factors among nurses in Ethiopia
... used: Medication administration error: A medication error (time, dose, missed drug, unauthorized, route, technique, and documentation errors) that occurs while the time of administering IV, ...
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ASSESSMENT OF MEDICATION ERRORS IN PSYCHIATRY PRACTICE IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
... of medication errors (ME) in psychiatric ...of medication errors. Predictors of medication errors were determined using bivariate non parametric ...215 medication errors were identified from ...
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... From "Recommendations to Reduce Medication Errors Associated with Verbal Medication Orders and Prescriptions," by National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting a[r] ...
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Proficiency in identifying, managing and communicating medical errors: feasibility and validity study assessing two core competencies
... a medication error because Keppra is not used for HIV prophylaxis and to realize that another drug with a similar name was intended to be prescribed, (Kaletra® (Lopinavir and ...ing error is a ...
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Medication administration error reporting and associated factors among nurses working at the University of Gondar referral hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2015
... administration error is one of the most common errors in the medication error process and occur when a discrepancy occurs between the drugs re- ceived by the patient and the drug intended by the pre- ...
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