Potential future risk of errors in medication administration recording

Abstract

The adapted matrix of potential future risk to ME-MAR is reliable and can serve as a guide for future studies.

The Importance of Obtaining Verbal Confirmation of Patient Identifiers While Using Technology during Medication Administration

“…Several researchers are calling for a culture of safety within care facilities to aid in ensuring nurses are using every safety measure possible when caring for patients. According to Vicente Oliveros et al (2016) medication errors are the most common mistakes affecting patient care and can be costly. To alleviate this burden, there has been a shift toward the use of standardized technology to aid in communicating patient safety data.…”

“…To alleviate this burden, there has been a shift toward the use of standardized technology to aid in communicating patient safety data. There are alerts within medication administration records, there are physical labels placed on medications, and there are bands placed on patients, all of this to draw attention to patient safety needs (Vicente Oliveros et al, 2016).…”

Effect of an electronic medication administration record application on patient safety

“… Classic ME taxonomy: ME‐MARs were classified according to the Ruiz‐Jarabo Group classification, which is an adaptation of the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention taxonomy to the Spanish setting . The consequences of ME‐MARs were rated using the adaptation of the potential future risk matrix for ME‐MAR previously published by our group Technology‐induced error taxonomy: Classification of problems involving information technology: ME‐MARs were first divided into those that mainly involved human factors or technical problems , and then assigned to 1 or more subclasses.…”