Medication Errors
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency.

30 Oct 2009 We reviewed and classified all patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England and Wales to the National Patient Safety Agency for the first quarter of 2008. A total of 6649 incidents were submitted from 141 organisations ... Read more...

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...

Quality of medication use in primary care--mapping the problem, working to a solution: a systematic review of the literature.

19 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The UK, USA and the World Health Organization have identified improved patient safety in healthcare as a priority. Medication error has been identified as one of the most frequent forms of medical error and is associated with significant ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medication Errors'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prescription standards are necessary to improve health literacy and medication safety. 30 Oct 2009
• Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency. 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
• Risk of confusion in dosing Tamiflu oral suspension in children. 21 Sep 2009
• Quality of medication use in primary care--mapping the problem, working to a solution: a systematic review of the literature. 19 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
• Toxicity from a clonidine suspension. 30 Aug 2009
• How you can prevent drug errors. 30 Aug 2009
• Drug use evaluation of sitagliptin dosing by pharmacist versus nonpharmacist clinicians in an internal medicine department of a private physician-owned multispecialty clinic. 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
• Life-threatening flecainide intoxication in a young child secondary to medication error. 9 Aug 2009
• [Check old prescriptions and physicians on duty!] 8 Aug 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