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...

Background: Intravenous (IV) injection of drugs is one of the most common methods of drug prescription in hospitals, which is a complex, potentially hazardous and erroneous method; accordingly, it requires control methods to reduce the potential risks. This study focused on determining the frequency and types of different medication errors while preparing and administering mostly used IV drugs ...

BACKGROUND The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility. The aim of this study is to analyse, as a part of a continuous quality improvement program, the quality of prescriptions writing for antibiotics, in an Italian University Hospital as a risk factor ...

drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. for this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from bou-ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

Introduction: Prescription errors are common and every step in the process of writing a prescription has potential for error. These can be broadly attributed to lack knowledge or skill. Poor legibility, inaccuracy writing, incomplete prescriptions, omissions, use abbreviations most type errors. Objectives: The primary objective our study was assess completeness legibility prescriptions. This is...

Background: Medication dosing errors may have grave consequences for neonatal patients. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) with dosing decision support functionalities has been effective in reducing these errors. However, the adoption rate is low. Physicians' resistance has been identified as a significant barrier. To reduce this resistance, the system should be designed in close collabo...

CONTEXT The tendency to use advanced technology in healthcare and the governmental policies have put forward electronic prescription. Electronic prescription is considered as the main solution to overcome the major drawbacks of the paper-based medication prescription, such as transcription errors. This study aims to provide practical information concerning electronic prescription system to a va...

Medication error are one of the most frequently occurring types adverse events in hospitalized patients and potentially more harmful children than adults. A prospective study was carried out to identify incidence medication selected hospital, Indore. 16355 records patients, admitted Indore were evaluated. Prospective aimed evaluate compliance, completion & accuracy audit checklist case files ac...

Using standardized forms for prescription and administration of medications is one of the main solutions for reducing medication errors in the chemotherapy process. Considering the high prevalence and mortality rate of colorectal cancer, in this study we tried to design and validate a standard printed form and evaluate oncologists’ and nurses’ adherence to this form. This cross-sectional study ...