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Serious medication administration errors are common in hospitals and nurse's interruptions during medication preparation and administration is associated with errors. Various interventions were developed to help prevention of errors such as visual intervention. Investigators aimed to study the effect of a medication safety vest to reduce medication errors. The vest serves as a visible signal to inform others that the nurse is preparing and administering medications and should not be disturbed. Patients and visitors are provided with an informational flyer to inform them about the use of medication safety vests. The hypothesis is that the vest will reduce nurse's interruptions during medication preparation and administration, and ultimately reduce medication errors. The study is a randomized controlled trial in 30 care units of four hospitals in France. Each unit will be randomized in either the control group or the experimental group using the medication safety vest. Nurses of the unit will be selected at random to determine who will be observed during the administration rounds.The observation method will be used to evaluate the error rates in the 2 groups. The number of interruptions and error rates will be evaluated.


Clinical Trial Description

Serious medication administration errors are common in hospitals. Significant association between medication administration errors rate and the frequency of nurse's interruptions was shown. The estimated risk of error without interruption during preparation and administration is 2.3% whereas it doubles with 4 or more interruptions. Various interventions were developed to help prevention of errors such as visual interventions and technology interventions. Investigators aimed to study the effect of a medication safety vest to reduce medication errors. The vest serves as a visible signal to inform others that the nurse is preparing and administering medications and should not be disturbed. On the back of the vest is written "Do not disturb me. I am preparing medications". Patients and visitors are provided with an informational flyer to inform them about the use of medication safety vests The hypothesis is that the vest will reduce nurse's interruptions during medication preparation and administration, and ultimately reduce medication errors. The study is a randomized controlled trial in 30 care units of four hospitals in France. Each unit will be randomized in either the control group or the experimental group using the medication safety vest. Nurses of the unit will be randomized to determine who will be observed during the administration rounds.The observation method will be used to evaluate the error rates in the 2 groups. The number of interruptions and error rates will be evaluated. ;


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NCT number NCT03062852
Study type Interventional
Source Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date March 15, 2017
Completion date April 17, 2018

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