Medication Errors - Prevention & control
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Policy statement--guidance for the administration of medication in school.

26 Sep 2009 Many children who take medications require them during the school day. This policy statement is designed to guide prescribing health care professionals, school physicians, and school health councils on the administration of medications to children ... Read more...

[Clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary team in a paediatric department]

8 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Clinical pharmacists have not been a part of multidisciplinary teams at Rikshospitalet, University Hospital, Norway, which is in contrast with common practice in other countries. We wanted to investigate how such specialists could ... Read more...

Medication safety in community pharmacy: a qualitative study of the sociotechnical context.

5 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: While much research has been conducted on medication safety, few of these studies have addressed primary care, despite the high volume of prescribing and dispensing of medicines that occurs in this setting. Those studies that have ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medication Errors - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prescription standards are necessary to improve health literacy and medication safety. 30 Oct 2009
• Pharmacists are key to enhancing benefit risk for medicines. 10 Oct 2009
• CDC and FDA response to risk of confusion in dosing Tamiflu oral suspension. 28 Sep 2009
• Policy statement--guidance for the administration of medication in school. 26 Sep 2009
• [Clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary team in a paediatric department] 8 Sep 2009
• Medication safety in community pharmacy: a qualitative study of the sociotechnical context. 5 Sep 2009
• The Indian Polycap Study (TIPS). 3 Sep 2009
• On how to improve drug use to minimise risks to patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Intravenous medications in long-term care: a wake-up call for pharmacists. 30 Aug 2009
• How you can prevent drug errors. 30 Aug 2009
• ...FDA may limit sales of acetaminophen-containing medications... 30 Aug 2009
• An evaluation of the relationship between the implementation of a newly designed prescription drug label at Target pharmacies and health outcomes. 30 Aug 2009
• Caution: coloured medication and the colour blind. 27 Aug 2009
• [Check old prescriptions and physicians on duty!] 8 Aug 2009
• [Does electronic medicine prescription cause new types of errors?] 8 Aug 2009
• [Electronic prescription--can be better] 8 Aug 2009
• Reducing medication administration errors in nursing practice. 30 Jul 2009
• Effect of clinical pharmacists on care in the emergency department: a systematic review. 30 Jul 2009
• [Failure mode and effect analysis: application in chemotherapy] 30 Jul 2009
• [The intravenous medication calculation abilities in registered nurses at a teaching hospital in southern taiwan] 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Medication Errors'

Definition: Errors in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication with the result that the patient fails to receive the correct drug or the indicated proper drug dosage.

Descriptor UI: D008508

Alternative terms: Medication Errors; Errors, Medication; Error, Medication; Medication Error;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control;

Tree Number: E02.319.529; N02.421.450.500;

History Note: 67(66)

Technical Notes: IM; coord with specific dis /drug ther (IM) & specific drug /ther use (IM); DF: MEDICATION ERR