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Filter by:A medication error is a failure in the treatment process that leads to, or has the potential to lead, to harm to the patient.1 Medication errors are a common unfortunate occurrence in hospital. They can occur in different phases of the therapeutic process (prescribing, distribution, administration and monitoring) and have significant impact on morbidity and mortality. Prescribing faults and prescription errors are major problem among medication errors .Prescription errors account for 70 % of medication errors that could potentially result in adverse drug effects.2 Overall it has been estimated prescription errors affect 7 % of medication orders, 2% of patient days and 50 % of hospital admissions.3,4 When harm arises from a medication error it is potentially preventable. The medication errors project was devised to analyze and limit through educational audit and other tools, as much as possible, damages due to the therapeutic process. The project will include 5 phases. Preliminary phase: organizational meetings. Phase I: Patient monitoring: a monitor in collaboration with health professionals of involved units will review all patient charts and will register all adverse drug reactions(ADRs). All ADRs will be introduced by the monitor in a database. Health professional will be invited to send the reports of observed ADRs. Evaluation of ADRs : a panel of experts will evaluate if the ADRs are due to medication errors or not. Phase II :educational audits directed to health professionals will be organized. Tools to reduce the medication errors will be proposed. Phase III: the same procedure of the first phase. Final phase (IV): analysis of data with publication of a scientific article.
Giving medications to children can be confusing; studies have shown that caregivers make dosing administration errors up to 50% of the time. There are many reasons that there are so many errors, including the fact that dosing for children is based on their weight, liquid medications come in many different forms, and caregivers often give medicines using kitchen teaspoons and tablespoons. Caregivers who have difficulty reading have even more difficulty understanding medication instructions. We are developing and testing a web-based educational module to teach caregivers how to give medications. We are focusing on the pediatric emergency department because we know that this population has low literacy levels, and that many antibiotics are prescribed in this setting. We anticipate that those caregivers that view the interactive module will have increased knowledge on how to give medications once they get home.
The purpose of the study is to determine if a behavioral knowledge based education intervention will decrease medication transcription errors among professional nurses when admitting elder patients to a hospital. The hypothesis is those professional nurses who receive the behavioral-cognitive eduction medication taking intervention will have fewer medication errors than those professional nurses who do not.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a medication therapy management program designed to reconcile a patient's medications and identify and resolve drug related problems can reduce adverse drug events and other measures of safety and improve patient satisfaction.
Our objective is to determine the effects of electronic prescribing on medication safety including medication errors, near misses and preventable adverse drug events in the ambulatory setting. Study design will be a longitudinal evaluation of errors early after implementation and after sustained use.
The purpose of this study is twofold: 1. to measure the effects of transitioning from one electronic prescribing system to another in the ambulatory setting on medication errors and human-computer interactions 2. to evaluate the impact of electronic transmission of discharge medication lists to the ambulatory setting on medication discrepancies and adverse drug events
The objective of this study is to quantify the benefits of using the MD.2 on health outcomes.
Liquid medication administration errors are common, and place children at risk for adverse events. Caregivers with low socioeconomic status (SES), low education and poor health literacy skills are at increased risk for errors. In this study, we seek to assess whether at-risk parents who received a plain language, pictogram-based intervention would have reduced medication dosing errors and improved medication adherence.
Device: computerized physician order entry. We wanted to investigate if the introduction of a computerized intensive care unit system reduced the incidence and severity of medication prescription errors (MPEs). A prospective trial was conducted during 5 weeks in a paper-based unit versus a computerized unit. The registration of different classes of MPEs was done by a clinical pharmacist. An independent panel evaluated the severity of MPEs.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a modified paper prescribing form decreases prescribing errors compared to a traditional or standard paper prescribing form.