Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...

The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...

Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication administration errors led to negative feelings of guilt, fear and self-blame, according to a study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...

Every eight minutes, a child experiences a medication error at home. These mistakes can be life-threatening. Errors can include administering the wrong medication ...

One reason is that hospital systems still treat medication safety as a clinical issue instead of a structural one. Dr. Karina ...

Preventable patient harm remains a pressing issue in healthcare, with medication errors posing a significant threat. These ...

Jeff Himler Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 7:01 a.m. | Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 7:01 a.m. A Pittsburgh-area woman died after having an allergic reaction to an antibiotic she was given not once, but twice, ...

I am responsible for the medication pass and worried about doing it with surveyors watching. Can you give me a few tips? First, I recommend that you pass medications with a routine every day. Be ...