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Examples of areas to reduce medication errors and improve safety include: Training professionals or using databases to compare new and previous prescribed medications to prevent mistakes, also known as "medication reconciliation", [146] prescribing through an electronic medical record system and/or using decision support systems that has ...
[127] 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 ...
One type of bar code used on medication packaging. Bar code medication administration (BCMA) is a barcode system designed by Glenna Sue Kinnick to prevent medication errors in healthcare settings and to improve the quality and safety of medication administration. The overall goals of BCMA are to improve accuracy, prevent errors, and generate ...
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Accidents and mistakes happen, even in the best-run health systems. But some of those alleged by hospice families and whistleblowers seem avoidable. Janice Holan claims in a lawsuit filed in October that her husband, Robert, died choking on liquid pain medication because his doctor at Horizons Hospice of Pittsburgh failed to deliver morphine ...
Barcode technology can help prevent medical errors by making accurate and reliable information readily available at the point-of-care. Information, such as the drug identification, medication management, infusion safety, specimen collection, etc. and any other patient care activity can be easily tracked during the patient stay.
For example, the experts noted that these common medications need to be stored with temperature in mind: Insulin typically needs to be refrigerated. Biologic medications, like monoclonal ...
One of the main conclusions was that the majority of medical errors do not result from individual recklessness or the actions of a particular group; rather, most errors are caused by faulty systems, processes, and conditions that lead people to make mistakes or fail to prevent adverse events. Thus, the Report recommended mistakes can best be ...