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  2. How can hospitals prevent medication errors? One ... - AOL

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    IV lines are prevalent in health care settings, especially in hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care. They are usually used to bring medicine or fluids directly into a patient’s body.

  3. Patient safety organization - Wikipedia

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    The MEDMARX report released in 2007 analyzed 11,000 medication errors during surgery in 500 hospitals between 1998 and 2005. The analysis showed that medication errors that happen in the operating room or recovery areas are three times more likely to harm a patient than errors occurring in other types of hospital care.

  4. To Err Is Human (report) - Wikipedia

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    The report was based upon analysis of multiple studies by a variety of organizations and concluded that between 44,000 to 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable medical errors. For comparison, fewer than 50,000 people died of Alzheimer's disease and 17,000 died of illicit drug use in the same year. [1]

  5. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    [126] Errors by hospital staff nurses are more likely when work shifts extend beyond 12 hours, or they work over 40 hours in one week. Studies have shown that overtime shifts have harmful effects on the quality of care provided to patients, but some researchers "who evaluated the safety of 12-hour shifts did not find increases in medication ...

  6. Adoption of electronic medical records in U.S. hospitals

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    For example, in 2002, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA attempted to implement a new EMR system, but the US$34 million system failed due to numerous factors. The physicians were unhappy because of the new physician order entry system for medications , labs and procedures was more time-consuming than doing the orders by hand.

  7. Bar code medication administration - Wikipedia

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    Bar code medication administration was designed as an additional check to aid the nurse in administering medications; however, it cannot replace the expertise and professional judgment of the nurse. The implementation of BCMA has shown a decrease in medication administration errors in the healthcare setting. [6]

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