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Medication Error Prevention: Improving Patient Health Outcome, Brigitta Van Ewijk
Medication Error Prevention: Improving Patient Health Outcome, Brigitta Van Ewijk
Master's Theses
Medication administration errors were reported to have an error rate of 60% in early research mainly in the form of the wrong dose, time, or rate. Working conditions were found to be one of the main contributors to these errors. Recognizing and reporting medication errors are key to the implementation of the reduction of this critical health problem (Hughes & Blegen, 2008). DataRay Inc. (n.d.), states that almost one in five medication doses administered in hospitals is given in error. The two most common errors were (1) dispensing medicine at the wrong time (43% of incidents) and (2) omitting a …