prescription errors
Evaluation of Drug Interactions and Prescription Errors of Poultry Veterinarians in North of Iran
... Drug prescription errors are a common cause of adverse incidents and may lead to adverse outcomes, sometimes in subtle ways, being compounded by circumstances or further ...medication errors of 750 ...
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PRESCRIPTION ERRORS: PREVENTABLE MEDICATION ERRORS
... the prescription errors. The prescription errors like the errors of omission related to the physician (missing information regarding the patient’s name, age, ...handwriting), ...
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Drug utilization, prescription errors and potential drug-drug interactions: an experience in rural Sri Lanka
... Fifteen percent of the prescriptions originate from gov- ernment sector. Reasons that drive consumers away from the government drug dispensing services (where products and services are free) are not clear. SLMC ...
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Quantifying and reducing inhaler prescription errors in secondary care
... The percentage error ratefrequency and type wereof errors pre- and post- intervention was calculated compared using the chi square test. The frequency of error by inhaler device type used a combined set of pre- ...
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PRESCRIBING PATTERN AND ANALYSIS OF PRESCRIPTION ERRORS OF SEVEN HOSPITALS OF JESSORE, JHENAIDAH, KUSHTIA AND CHUADANGA DISTRICTS OF BANGLADESH
... highest errors were found in the part of superscription in which the first and foremost error was the absence of patient’s gender ...inscription errors, the dose of drug was found to be omitted in about 26% ...
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Computerized Order Entry With Limited Decision Support to Prevent Prescription Errors in a PICU
... reduce prescription errors. However, when dosage errors contin- ued to be found 1 year later, decision- support tools that checked medication dosages were ...the prescription form when a ...
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The Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Prescription Errors and Clinical Outcome in Pediatric and Intensive Care: A Systematic Review
... RESULTS. Twelve studies, all observational, met our inclusion criteria. Eight studies took place at an ICU: 4 were adult ICUs, and 4 were PICUs and/or NICUs. Four studies were pediatric inpatient studies. Meta-analysis ...
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A study of Pharmacy of a Super Specialty Hospital with a View to Reduce the Prescription Errors
... Medication errors are serious problems in health care and can be a source of significant morbidity and mortality in the health care ...medication errors in IPD (In-patient department) at multispecialty ...
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Using a Preprinted Order Sheet to Reduce Prescription Errors in a Pediatric Emergency Department: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
... Within the study period, 411 orders for drugs in the ED were randomized to be ordered on the regu- lar form and 376 on the new form. The characteristics of these orders are presented in Table 1. Although subjective ...
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Prevalence and predictors of antibiotic prescription errors in an emergency department, Central Saudi Arabia
... preprinted prescription form composed of strictly controlled parameters containing the full aspects of the ATB, thus avoiding any chances of a misspelled name, inappro- priate dosage or frequency, route, and ...
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Impact of computerized physician order entry on medication prescription errors in the intensive care unit: a controlled cross sectional trial
... dosing errors in the C-U, whereas Shulman and colleagues found a higher proportion of dosing errors in the CPOE ...minor errors with no harm, similar to what we found, but they also found many ...
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The impact of preprinted prescription forms on medication prescribing errors in an ophthalmology clinic in northeast Thailand: a non-randomised interventional study
... most prescription errors result from illegibility and incomplete prescribing ...a prescription medication error rate of ...with errors in frequency and dose being the most common ...medication ...
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Prevalence of medication errors in primary health care at Bahrain Defence Force Hospital – prescription-based study
... integration errors, which are significant because such errors have consequences related to drug–drug interactions and drug ...of prescription errors can be utilized as a point of comparison ...
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Assessment of errors and incompleteness of prescriptions in outpatient clinics of public sector hospital in Karachi, Pakistan
... Prescribing errors can be a source of economic burden on the ...prescribing errors identified by hospital pharmacy staff in two Dutch ...prescribing errors were identified out of total 3540 orders in ...
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Identifying medication errors in neonatal intensive care units: a two-center study
... prescribing errors (42%) ...the prescription error rate was ...of prescription errors can be the insufficient experience of physicians, highly populated in-patient wards, heavy workload, ...
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A comparison of handwritten and computer assisted prescriptions in an intensive care unit
... reduce prescription errors for this category of ...the prescription chart could be viewed simultaneously drug therapy could be more easily reviewed by all ICU ...a prescription without the ...
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Impact of Electronic Prescription Audit Process to Reduce Outpatient Medication Errors
... prescription errors are commonly encountered in healthcare settings but most of the time they are unidentified at the point of prescription and ...of prescription requires effective ...
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Medication Error (ME) in the Pediatrics Service of the University Teaching Hospital (CHU) of Bouaké (Côte d’Ivoire)
... the prescription significantly reduces the prescription error [17] ...the prescription to non-physicians and the absence of a written prescription procedure in the ser- ...of ...
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An observational study on the extent of medication administration error in pediatric inpatient ward of Ayder Referral Hospital
... assess prescription rationality and most common prescription errors at the asses the type and the frequency of MAEs in pediatric inpatient ward of Ayder Referral Hospital, Mekelle, Tigray region, ...
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Potential prescription patterns and errors in elderly adult patients attending public primary health care centers in Mexico City
... drug prescription pattern in elderly outpatients shows that 12 drugs account for ...peutic errors (as defined in the present ...Potential prescription error was high (53% of total ...the ...
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