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  1. (PDF) A Systematic Review on Medication Errors

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  3. Types of Medication Errors

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  4. Medication Errors Research Paper Example

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  5. (PDF) Factors Affecting Medication Errors from the Perspective of

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  1. Medication Administration Errors and Associated Factors Among Nurses

    The median age was 30 with IQR (28-34) years and the majority of them (83.8%) had BSc qualification in nursing. The prevalence of MAE in this study was 57.7% and 30.4% of them made it more than three times. Wrong time (38.6%), wrong assessment (27.5%), and wrong evaluation (26.1%) were the most frequently perpetuated medication administration ...

  2. The Effective Strategies to Avoid Medication Errors and Improving

    Previously published research has revealed that sleep deprivation among healthcare providers is linked with medical errors occurrence . There is an evidence that night-shift healthcare workers commit medical errors more often than their dayshift counterparts as they experience poorer quality and shorter duration of sleep . Therefore, offering ...

  3. Medication errors: a focus on nursing practice

    Moreover, 0.078 errors per patient, and 0.029 errors per medication mainly because of dosing errors, drug omission, and wrong frequency errors. A previous study showed that (94.0%) out of 430 errors were omissions and only 6.0% of errors caused a major impact on patients' life but was not considered as a life-alarming errors. [ 63 ]

  4. Interventions to reduce medication errors in adult medical and surgical

    Systematic reviews examining interventions aimed at reducing medication errors have largely focused on specialty settings, such as patients situated in adult and paediatric intensive care units, emergency departments, and neonatal intensive care and paediatric units. 6-10 Previous relevant systematic reviews relating to testing interventions for reducing medication errors in general hospital ...

  5. Medication Dispensing Errors and Prevention

    Medication errors are the most common and preventable cause of patient injury.[1] These errors typically involve administering the wrong drug or dose, using the wrong route, administering it incorrectly, or giving medication to the wrong patient. The reported incidence of medication errors in acute hospitals is approximately 6.5 per 100 admissions.[1]

  6. Nurses' Perceived Causes of Medication Administration Errors: A

    Medication administration errors (MAEs) are a critical patient safety issue. Nurses are often responsible for administering medication to patients, thus their perceptions of causes of errors can provide valuable guidance for the development of interventions aimed to mitigate errors. Quantitative research can overlook less overt causes; therefore, a qualitative systematic review was conducted ...

  7. PDF Medication Errors

    1.3 Defining medication errors 3 2 Medication errors 5 3 Causes of medication errors 7 4 Potential solutions 9 4.1 Reviews and reconciliation 9 4.2 Automated information systems 10 4.3 Education 10 4.4 Multicomponent interventions 10 5 Key issues 12 5.1 Injection use 12 5.2 Paediatrics 12 5.3 Care homes 13 6 Practical next steps 14

  8. Medication errors and adverse drug events in a UK hospital during the

    The rate of primary medication errors per admission did not change significantly during the four periods (1·53 medication errors in period 1, 1·44 medication errors in period 2, 1·70 medication errors in period 3, and 1·43 medication errors in period 4; table 1).

  9. (PDF) Medication Errors: Understanding the Types, Causes, and

    Medication errors are a major public health concern that can result in significant harm to patients. Understanding the different types and causes of medication errors is essential to preventing ...

  10. Medication errors in hospitals: a literature review of disruptions to

    Aims and objectives: The purpose of this review was to explore what is known about interruptions and distractions on medication administration in the context of undergraduate nurse education. Background: Incidents and errors during the process of medication administration continue to be a substantial patient safety issue in health care settings internationally.

  11. Medication errors: what they are, how they happen, and how to avoid

    According to a 2000 report citing UK medical defence organizations, 1 25% of all litigation claims in general medical practice were due to medication errors and involved the following errors: prescribing and dispensing errors (including a wrong, contraindicated or unlicensed drug, a wrong dosage, or wrong administration);

  12. Interventions to reduce the incidence of medical error and its

    Studies related to preventing medication errors included approximately 35 interventions. We identified 21 groups of interventions falling into seven broader categories of medical errors. The least studied category of medical errors was related to patients' suicide and surgical errors.

  13. Exploring Nurses' Perceptions of Medication Error Risk Factors

    Globally, the cost associated with all medication errors has been estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) at $42 billion USD annually (World Health Organization, 2017). In Europe, the annual cost of medication errors had been estimated between €4.5 billion and €21.8 billion (European Medicines Agency, 2013).

  14. Medication Errors: An Overview for Clinicians

    n a. fewer than 1% of medication errors resulted in an adverse drug event.5Examples of medica-tion errors could include giving a medication to the wrong patient, giving the wrong dose of a medication, not prescribing a medication that was indicated, entering an order for the wrong patient, or forgetting to give a medica-tion that was due.

  15. Registered Nurses' Experiences of Medication Errors—An Original

    A discursive paper which presents an original research protocol about nurses' experiences of medication errors with interpretative phenomenological analysis followed by a literature review and personal reflections about the relevant methodological and ethical considerations.

  16. Nurses' perspectives on medication errors and prevention strategies in

    The study identified medication errors are caused by contributing factors such as use of agency staffing (70.4%) and delays in receipt of laboratory results (94.3%). However, it also identified suggestions to reduce medication errors in RACFs, for example use of electronic alerts (88.3%), and efficient laboratory communication (91.8%).

  17. Medication errors and drug knowledge gaps among critical-care nurses: a

    Medication errors are a serious and complex problem in clinical practice, especially in intensive care units whose patients can suffer potentially very serious consequences because of the critical nature of their diseases and the pharmacotherapy programs implemented in these patients. The origins of these errors discussed in the literature are wide-ranging, although far-reaching variables are ...

  18. Medication errors: an overview for clinicians

    Affiliations 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: [email protected]. 2 ...

  19. Causes of Medication Administration Errors in Hospitals: a Systematic

    Transcription errors were reported by some [37, 41-45, 50, 76, 83, 85], as were MAEs (e.g. omission and extra dose errors) apparently caused by others' documentation errors when writing prescriptions or administering medication [42, 43, 45, 50, 60, 65, 67, 77, 78], with open-ended surveys and interviews relating one case to misinterpreting ...

  20. Preventing the medication errors in hospitals: A qualitative study

    A recent meta-analysis study showed that the prevalence of medication errors is 32.1% ( Sutherland et al., 2020) to 94% ( Assiri et al., 2018 ). Also, statistics showed 39% of medication errors were related to general practitioners, 38% to nurses, and 23% to pharmacies ( Al-Worafi, 2020 ). A systematic review showed that the prevalence of ...

  21. Medication error: The role of health care professionals, sources of

    This paper surveys current literature related to medication administration errors, the role of nurses in such errors, and current initiatives that are underway within New Zealand to address this ...

  22. Minimizing medical errors to improve patient safety: An essential

    CPOE systems are designed to replace a medical institution's paper-based ordering system and have the capability to be a powerful solution for limiting hospital medical errors. They permit physicians to electronically write the overall range of orders, maintain an online medication administration record, and evaluate modifications made to order ...

  23. Medical Error: Using Storytelling and Reflection to Impact Error

    Electronic written consent was obtained from participants. On August 26, 2022, the Institutional Review Board at Wright State University, the ACGME sponsoring institution, found this research proposal (Study 7293) to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects and to meet the requirements of Wright State's Federal Wide Assurance (FWA 00002427) and the federal regulations for the ...

  24. Root Cause Analysis and Medical Error Prevention

    Root cause analysis with corrective measures : A root cause analysis was performed, and measures were taken to avoid this problem. The RCA team noted that the nurse caring for both patients had worked in the hospital for 5 years and was recently transitioned to the obstetric ward. This had never happened to her before.