Chart-review studies define medication errors as errors in the ... preventable ADEs are associated with errors. An example of a preventable ADE is an antibiotic associated rash in a patient ...

As a medical ... Chart (INC). JCAHO’s Do Not Use list Physicians are routinely pressured to see more patients in a day, and the risk of improperly prescribing or committing other written errors ...

Some examples of flawed medical records relate to individual ... One study from the United States found written errors, such as unclear documentation or not using plain language, were among ...

I’d mistakenly prescribed an antibiotic for a patient whose chart indicated an allergy ... legislative action on disclosure of medical errors. For example, Pennsylvania in 2002 adopted a law ...

A chart-review study of medication errors in adult inpatients by Bates ... has developed an easy-to-use ADE measurement kit. A random sample of charts (e.g., 10 per week) is reviewed.