A hospital's change from a traditional, multitiered incident-reporting system for medication errors to a standardized, nonpunitive medication-use variance process is described. After weaknesses were identified in the hospital's system for reporting and evaluating medication errors, a multidisciplinary task force was formed to redesign the hospital's medication error-reporting system. Its guidin...

this study was performed to assess the incidence of medication errors and irrational use of human albumin in two wards of our hospital and also aimed to evaluate the ability of pharmaceutical care center and pharmacists in improving patient care. albumin administration was evaluated for patients who received albumin during the study period, in gastroenterology and general surgery wards. the ind...

This article is a case study of medication errors in a psychiatric hospital in the Midwestern region of the United States. A survey was conducted among nursing staff regarding the likelihood of reporting medication errors. A few case scenarios were presented for discussion. Measures to improve safety of medication administration were proposed.

background and aim: giving improper prescriptions is common among medical practitioners, mostly graduates, in most communities even developed countries. so far, to our knowledge, no study has been conducted on prescription writing of graduate midwifery students. therefore, this study aimed to detect prescription writing errors of midwifery students in common gynecological problems. methods: in ...

Objective: We used MEDMARX, the national medication error-reporting program, to compare medication errors reported by critical access hospitals (CAHs) to those reported by non-Federal, general community hospitals. Methods: We used the availability of pharmacist support to represent the structure and process of medication use and within-cluster resampling to account for the correlation of error ...

background medication error in hospitals is a major cause of errors, which may cause disruptions in the workflow of the health care systems. the aim of this study was to assess medication errors made by nurses and the relationship of such errors with job and demographic characteristics. material and methods this was a descriptive study on 225 nurses in various hospitals, selected through multis...

OBJECTIVE To implement a prescribing-error reporting system in primary care offices and analyze the reports. DESIGN Descriptive analysis of a voluntary prescribing-error-reporting system SETTING Seven primary care offices in Vermont, USA. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and three prescribers, managers, nurses and office staff. INTERVENTION Nurses and office staff were asked to report all commu...