Medication errors: EMERGing solutions

Aronson, Jeffrey K

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2125.2009.03420.x

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“…A report from EMERGE (The Erice Medication Errors Research Group) [6] indicates that health care professionals are more likely to make errors when they are inexperienced, inattentive, rushed, distracted, tired, or depressed. Another study [7] identifies the types, steps and cases of the adverse events.…”

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Medical Error Prevention Based on Path Integration System Approach

Chan

Leung

Cheng

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop

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Recent findings show that medical errors are prevalent and lead to many unnecessary iatrogenic deaths and injuries. Medical error studies using different approaches such as person approach or system approach enable clinicians to have a better understanding and valuable insight into error prevention through employing guidelines, standardized procedures, and devices, etc. A novel approach is proposed, known as the Path Integration System Approach (PISA), based on information technology (IT), in the design of health systems processes to reduce adverse events. Unlike the person approach or the system approach, which basically addresses error-prone procedures and situations by building more error barriers or changing human behaviour, PISA is concerned with re-constructing the medical procedure paths and system operations to lower the association between clinical staff and medical errors, through the judicious deployment of Information and Communication Technology. It is shown that PISA has the potential to achieve medical error reduction in excess of 70%. Examples and guidelines are given to illustrate the application of the approach. The paper proposes an integrated approach which transforms the effective deployment of IT systems to focus on integration and communication between subsystems. Through the adoption of PISA, such integration may be achieved to the benefit of different groups of stakeholders in medical error prevention.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Medical Error Prevention Based on Path Integration System Approach

Chan

Leung

Cheng

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop

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“…Medication errors are common, 17 but evidence on the efficacy of student teaching interventions to reduce them is sadly lacking, 18 perhaps because students are allowed to prescribe only after qualification. There was only one, small controlled study of 24 postgraduate paediatric residents in Canada who received a short tutorial and a written knowledge test, followed by recording of prescribing errors in the paediatric emergency department.…”

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Training good prescribers: what are the best methods?

Roß

Loke

2009

Clinical Medicine

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“…5 It has been described as the process of deciding which medication to use and how to use it, while the prescription is the means by which these decisions are communicated. 6 Safe prescribing must include cognitive and decision-making steps before the prescription is generated. 6 A good prescriber is a safe one.…”

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“…6 Safe prescribing must include cognitive and decision-making steps before the prescription is generated. 6 A good prescriber is a safe one. Unfortunately, a systematic review of junior doctors' prescribing found sUMMArY Prescribing errors remain a significant cause of patient harm.…”

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“…7 Education is one of the most effective methods to prevent medication errors. 6,8,9 The World Health Organization Good Prescribing Guide was found to be useful in improving students' skills in multiple clinical settings. 9 It could serve as a foundation for a targeted prescribing curriculum, although further development in both the teaching and assessment of prescribing is warranted.…”

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