Prevalence and Nature of Medication Administration Errors in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Direct Observational Evidence

Abstract

Future research should attend to the wide methodological inconsistencies between studies to gain a greater measure of comparability to help guide any forthcoming interventions.

Exploring behavioural determinants relating to health professional reporting of medication errors: a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework

“…While several systematic reviews have reported medication error prevalence and causality, these did not focus specifically on medication error reporting [2][3][4][5]. A number of studies have employed quantitative approaches (mainly cross-sectional surveys) to research the perspectives of health professionals around medication error reporting [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

Medication errors in outpatient care in Colombia, 2005-2013

“…A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm, related to unwise or inadequate professional practice from the moment of prescription to medical order fulfillment (1,2). These errors include inadequate selection of the drug, dose or route of administration, therapy length or incorrect selection according to the potential harm related to the characteristics or comorbidities of the patient (3,4).…”

Evaluation of critical points of hospital pharmacotherapy in relation to patient safety in Poland

“…[3][4][5][6][7] Według International Council of Nurses (ICN) błędy związane z podawaniem leków (medication errors) można podzielić na 2 główne grupy, tj. błędy związane z organizacją systemu (system failures) i błę-dy związane z czynnikiem ludzkim (human errors).…”