Medication Errors in Pediatrics

Prevention of medication errors in pediatrics.

Medication Errors in Administration of Chemotherapeutic Agents: an Observational Study

Chemotherapy medication errors may lead to potentially harmful consequences while most of them could be preventable. This study aims to determine the incidence and type of drug handling and administration errors among the nurses and to identify possible contributing factors. Setting of the study was a teaching hospital affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medic...

Environmental Factors Contributing to Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units

Introduction: Medication errors are one of the most common types of medical errors. In Intensive Care Units, because of its special circumstances, the risk of such errors is increasing. There are several causes for the medication errors of nurses, including environmental factors. Objective: The current study aimed at determining environmental factors contributing to medication errors based on ...

Medication errors in paediatric outpatients.

BACKGROUND Medication errors are common in many settings and have important ramifications. Although there is growing research on rates and characteristics of medication errors in adult ambulatory settings, less is known about the paediatric ambulatory setting. OBJECTIVE To assess medication error rates in paediatric patients in ambulatory settings. METHODS The authors conducted a prospectiv...

Introduction to medication errors and medication safety

A medication safety incident is defined by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) as: ‘any unintended or unexpected incident which could have or did lead to harm for one or more patients’ (NPSA, 2007:9). These incidents can occur at each stage of the process involved in the delivery of medicines to patients, i.e. prescribing (including transcribing or physician ordering), dispensing, prepara...