Difficulty in quickly finding important information, or delays in reporting new information, can contribute to errors, misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. This could be due to the ease of use of ...

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 ...

When you're a nurse, patient safety is your top priority, and medication errors can be a significant threat to that safety. If you find yourself repeatedly encountering medication errors, it's ...

Introduction: Medication reconciliation had been a persistently national patient safety issue. Despite several efforts, the rate of error is still significantly high ...

The aim is to evaluate whether the introduction of a gentamicin prescription, administration and monitoring chart reduces the number of medication errors. Methods: A retrospective audit looking at ...

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.