The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...

Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...

Hospital negligence takes many forms, including inadequate monitoring, failure to follow proper sanitation protocols, ...

Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...

Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...

Objective To explore healthcare professionals’ experiences with medication errors (MEs) in terms of types and factors that contribute to them. Design A mixed-methods study was conducted to explore the ...

A resident in Golden Valley died after a staff error resulted in the individual receiving eight times the prescribed amount ...

I am responsible for the medication pass and worried about doing it with surveyors watching. Can you give me a few tips? First, I recommend that you pass medications with a routine every day. Be ...