a bstract background: medication errors and adverse drug events of high alert medication are one of the major problems in therapeutic system. the purpose of the present study was to investigate ‎the effect of clinical supervision model on high alert medication safety in intensive care units nurses. materials and methods: this was a quasi-experimental study conducted on 32 nurses of intensive ca...

BACKGROUND Iatrogenic medication errors due to calculation errors are an under-reported concern in children. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and source of iatrogenic medication errors in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU). METHODS A prospective study was conducted in the PICU at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital, Durban, South Africa, over a 3-month period in 2014. Medication-related...

Analysis of medication errors can lead to system improvement and reduced risk only if the errors are detected, reported, and used to design better patient-care practices and systems. Voluntary medication error reporting systems rely on the ability and willingness of individual physicians, pharmacists, and nurses to detect and report errors as part of their routine practice. Because of the centr...

From 7/2014 through 6/2015, 10 emergency department (ED) medication dosing errors were reported through the electronic incident reporting system of an urban academic medical center. Analysis of these medication errors identified inaccurate estimated weight on patients as the root cause. The goal of this project was to reduce weight-based dosing medication errors due to inaccurate estimated weig...

The Monitoring Medicines project (MM), funded by the FP-7 EU framework, was carried out between 2009 and 2013 by a consortium of 11 partners. The objectives were to support and strengthen consumer reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs); expand the role and scope of national pharmacovigilance centres concerning medication errors; promote improved use of pharmacovigilance data; and develop me...

Background A medication error (ME) is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm. Voluntary reporting has a principal role in appreciating the extent and impact of medication errors. Thus, exploration of the proportion of medication error reporting and associated factors among nurses is important to inform service providers and program implement...

BACKGROUND Information is scarce on the impact of the clinical electronic record on the frequency and severity of medication errors in acute geriatric patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS An analytical and descriptive pre-post study was conducted on the implementation of computerized provider order entry systems (CPOE), over a 6 year period. A voluntary reporting system was used to detect the medic...