Good clinical practices and strict vigilance are needed, especially for patients receiving chemotherapy. Regular audits using a specially developed tool need to be conducted in the oncology wards to i...
Observational study was conducted in the adult and paediatric oncology inpatient settings in an Indian tertiary care hospital for a period of 2.5 years. It was an audit of case files of chemotherapy p...
1.3% medication errors and 0.23% adverse drug reactions were reported during the study period. Majority were transcription (38%) and drug reconstitution errors (29%) and were either in the near-miss o...
Medication errors were found in the oncology wards, but due to the vigilance of clinical pharmacists, none of the patients were harmed as a consequence of these errors....
Methods for categorizing the scale and severity of medication errors corrected by pharmacy staff during admission medication reconciliation using complete medication history continue to evolve. We est...
Medication errors are an unnecessary cost to a healthcare system and patients of a country. This review aimed to systematically identify published cost variables used to calculate the cost of medicati...
A systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Electronic databases, PubMed, Scopus, Emerald and JSTOR were searched,...
Among 3088 articles, 33 articles were selected for review. Most studies were conducted in Western countries. Cost variables used (types and number) by different studies varied widely. Most studies (N=...
Variables used to calculate the cost of medication errors were not uniform across studies. Almost a decade after systematic reviews previously reporting on this area, a validated methodology to calcul...
This study aimed to identify the perceptions and attitudes of pediatricians and parents/caregivers regarding medication errors at home, and to compare the findings from the two populations....
This was a cross-sectional survey study. We designed a survey for working pediatricians and another one for parents or caregivers of children aged 14 years and younger. The survey's questions were des...
The surveys were administered in Spain from 2019 to 2021. In total, 182 pediatricians and 194 families took part. Most pediatricians (62.6%) and families (79.3%) considered that managing medical treat...
Pediatricians and families think that medical treatment is not among the main difficulties faced by parents in caring for their children. Most pediatricians said they would recommend a medication erro...
drug overdose is a common type of medication error, which caused significant patient injuries and economic losses. To determine which drugs are reported most frequently in association with drug overdo...
FAERS database was searched for drug overdose records submitted from the first quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2021. Descriptive analyses were conducted based on the total counts and percenta...
A total of 170,424 drug overdose reports were retrieved. The results revealed that antipyretics and analgesics took the highest risk for overdose, with 63,143 (37.05%) cases reported. Among them, opio...
to reduce the occurrence of drug overdose events, some methods could be considered including applying a pre-prescription review system, drug safety education, developing warning lists, etc....
Children with cancer receive many medications outside the hospital administered by their caregivers. The study by Walsh et al. shows the number and types of medication errors in these patients. The st...
Conventional cognitive interventions to reduce medication errors have been found to be less effective as behavioural change does not always follow intention change. Nudge interventions, which subtly s...
Conducted from February to May 2023, this study aimed to determine the relationships between perceived effectiveness and perceived ease of implementation of six nudge interventions to reduce medicatio...
All six nudge strategies had significant positive relationships between perceived effectiveness and acceptability. In three out of six interventions, perceived ease of implementation was shown to have...
For successful nudge implementations, both intrinsic properties of the interventions and the broader sociocultural context is necessary....
To identify the nurses' perceptions on the occurrence of Medication Administration Errors (MAEs) and barriers to reporting using the MAE Reporting Survey....
MAEs is a serious public health threat that causes patient injury, death, and results to expensive health care....
Descriptive statistical analysis....
The most frequent reasons for MAEs according to the nurses were physicians' medication orders are not legible (4.67 ± 1.21) and unit staffing levels are inadequate (4.63 ± 1.45). The most frequent rea...
The findings supported the notion that nurses perceive low percentages of MAEs reporting....
This project is part of a broader effort to develop a new electronic registry for ophthalmology in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province in South Africa. The registry should include a clinical decision sup...
Post-operative prescriptions of consecutive cataract surgery discharges were included for 2019 and 2020. Comparisons were facilitated by the four chosen state hospitals in KZN each having a different ...
There were 1307 individual errors in 1661 prescriptions, categorised into 20 error types. Increasing levels of technology did not decrease error rates but did decrease the variety of error types. High...
Increasing technology, by itself, does not seem to reduce prescription error. Technology does, however, seem to decrease the variability of potential error types, which make many of the errors simpler...
Medication errors can have severe consequences and threaten patient safety. The patient safety-related benefits of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) have been reported by several previous studies, ...
