Factors effective on medication errors: A nursing view.
Since the early 1980s, the People’s Medical Society has developed guidelines to help consumers avoid medication errors in hospitals and at community and mail-order pharmacies (Personal communication, Charles Inlander, March 25, 2005).
Medication-administration errors in an urban mental health hospital: A direct observation study This research was embarked upon to present medication errors throughout a United Kingdom mental health hospital and to explore the dynamics that may cause an increase in medication administration errors. An evaluation of articles printed between 1963 to December 2013 was completed in order to find.
Medication errors can occur at any stage of the medication use process and may or may not lead to an ADE. Depending on the clinical setting, about one-third to one-half of ADEs are associated with medication errors. The relationship between ADEs, potential ADEs, and medication errors is shown in Figure 1. INCIDENCE OF MEDICATION ERRORS.
Classification of medication errors. The best way to understand how medication errors happen and how to prevent them is to consider their classification, which can be contextual, modal, or psychological. Contextual classification deals with the specific time, place, medicines, and people involved. Modal classification examines the ways in which.
In Phase 1, I undertook a systematic review of the existing research on the epidemiology of medication errors and error-related ADEs, and their risk factors in community settings. Phase 2 was a feasibility study to identify the ambulatory settings and electronic database, evaluate the feasibility of data extraction and data collection from electronic health records (EHRs) and to check the.
The purpose of my research was to determine the factors associated with medication errors made by professional nurses. The study was of the descriptive method utilizing an interview guide constructed by the investigator, and two standardized instruments, the State Trait Anxiety Inventory constructed by Spielberger and the Life Events Inventory constructed by Cochrane and Robertson to collect.
A study has revealed an estimated 237 million medication errors occur in the NHS in England every year, and avoidable adverse drug reactions (ADRs) cause hundreds of deaths. Researchers from the Universities of York, Manchester and Sheffield report that an estimated 712 deaths result from avoidable ADRs. They say, however, that ADRs could be a contributory factor to between 1,700 and 22,303.