Preanalytical errors in emergency department samples: Investigating error sources

Investigating the Frequency and Causes of Nursing Errors from the Perspectives of Emergency Department Nurses

Background : Emergency department is a wide and complicated place and admits different kind of patients because of this factors it is a talented place for occurring nursing errors.nursing errors are evaluated as an important index to show the lower quality of health care service.the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency and causes of nursing errors and prevention strategies from the p...

Medication Errors in an Emergency Department in a Large Teaching Hospital in Tehran

Medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. We assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in Tehran. We also investigated the effect of Emergency Department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful m...

Medication Errors in an Emergency Department in a Large Teaching Hospital in Tehran

Medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. We assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in Tehran. We also investigated the effect of Emergency Department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful m...

Sources of error in emergency ultrasonography

BACKGROUND To evaluate the common sources of diagnostic errors in emergency ultrasonography. METHODS The authors performed a Medline search using PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) for original research and review publications examining the common sources of errors in diagnosis with specific reference to emergency ultrasonography. The search design utilized different as...

Hurried Psychiatric Labelling: A Preventable Medical Error in an Emergency Department