Human error poses significant risk for hospitalized patients causing an estimated 100,000 to
400,000 deaths in the USA annually. Medication errors contribute, with error occurring in …

Medication errors are the common causes of patient morbidity and mortality. It adds financial
burden to the institution as well. Though the impact varies from no harm to serious adverse …

BACKGROUND: Medication errors continue to be a significant source of patient harm in the
operating room with few concrete countermeasures. The organization and identification of …

Life-threatening drug errors are more common in children than in adults. This is likely to be
because of their variations in age and weight, combined with the occasional exposure of …

Background Medication-related adverse events (MRE) in anaesthesia care are frequent and
require a deeper understanding if we are to prevent medication harm. Methods We …

INTRODUCTION: Anesthesiology is the only medical specialty that prescribes, dilutes, and
administers drugs without conferral by another professional. Adding to the high frequency of …

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advocates remain of wholesale removal of color from medications in the hopes that it will …

The incidence of an anaesthetic drug error can be directly observed in large trials. In an
alternative approach, we developed a probabilistic mathematical model in which the …

Los errores con medicamentos representan una de las principales causas de incidentes y
eventos adversos durante el periodo perioperatorio por lo que en este estudio se analizaron …

Background Patient safety is improved by the use of labelled, ready-to-use, pre-filled
syringes (PFS) when compared to conventional methods of syringe preparation (CMP) of the …