Medscape

Timely Medication Administration Guidelines for Nurses: Fewer Wrong-Time Errors?

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 ...
EurekAlert!

Medication administration errors can induce fear, sadness ang guilt among healthcare professionals

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 ...
Healio

Medication errors lead to fear, sadness, guilt among health care staff

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 ...
Medscape

Improving the Safety of Medication Administration Using an Interactive CD-ROM Program

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 ...
BMJ Quality & Safety

Is independent double-checking superior to single-checking in medication administration error detection? A randomised controlled simulation trial

Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...
EMS1

Cleveland hospital partners with OneDose for EMS-specific medication safety

OneDose’s new eMACC app digitizes medication cross-checks for EMS, aiming to reduce errors and streamline protocol updates ...
Healio

‘Unnoticed previously,’ hospital medication errors are more common in older children

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 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Medication errors occur frequently in nursing homes, study finds

While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...
Medical Dialogues

Indian Hospitals Face 34 Percent Medication Error Rate: New Systematic Evidence

A recent systematic literature review has unveiled a startling 34.11% median incidence rate of medication errors in Indian ...
JD Supra

Medication Errors Lead to a Criminal Conviction: What Nurses Should Know about the RaDonda Vaught Verdict

The case has rocked the medical profession. On March 25, 2022, a Tennessee jury found a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and negligent abuse of ...
New Atlas

ADHD medication errors in under-20s have increased by almost 300%

A new study has found a staggering rise in the number of ADHD medication errors among US youth over the last 22 years, most of which occurred at home. The researchers say their findings highlight the ...