Medication errors experienced by patients include taking the wrong dose or quantity of a particular drug, as well as omission of a drug or taking unlicensed drugs. Nurses who had attended medication ...
New credential formally recognizes pharmacy technicians as essential leaders in medication error prevention and patient ...
The World Health Organization launched the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety — an international effort aimed at reducing harmful medication errors around the globe by 50 percent in ...
For example, workers may draw medication from the right vial but mislabel the syringe, or they may correctly label the syringe but draw from the wrong vial. Although barcode labels, color-coding ...
A team of researchers says it has developed the first wearable camera system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, detects potential errors in medication delivery. In a test whose results ...
Performing computerized analysis to identify patients receiving target drugs that may be used to treat a medication error or to search for serum drug concentration ...
The topic of medication errors is not a new topic, nor is it one that will disappear from the focus of the healthcare environment. Patient safety will always be first and foremost in all areas of ...
A review of medication errors showed anesthesia providers who were in training were more likely to report an error, with the most common type of error being incorrect doses and substitution, according ...