Background To protect children from harm, clinicians, educators, and patient safety
champions need information to direct improvement efforts. Critical incident data could …

Objective: To identify a risk profile for harmful medication errors in the neonatal intensive
care unit (NICU). Study Design: A retrospective cross-sectional study on NICU medication …

Objectives Our aim was to review medication-related incidents reported to a hospital
voluntary incident reporting system to identify and quantify the magnitude of wrong dose …

Medication errors represent one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in
hospitalized patients. Anesthesia has specific medication-related risks; providers must …

Medication error is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession, and
anaesthesia and critical care are no exception to it. Man, medicine, machine and modus …

Medication errors cause substantial harm to patients. We need good methods for counting
errors, and we need to know how errors defined in different ways and ascertained by …

Objective. To investigate errors in administering drugs by anaesthetists working in public
hospitals in the Free State province. Methods. Anonymous questionnaires were distributed …

Neonates are highly vulnerable to medication errors because of their extensive exposure to
medications in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the general lack of evidence on …

Abstract Background Patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at an
increased risk for medication errors. Objective The objective of this study is to describe the …

Objective To measure the rates of medication administration errors in medical wards at Ain
Shams University Hospital and to identify significant determinants of medication …