A medication error is a failure in the treatment process that leads to, or has the potential to
lead to, harm to the patient. Medication errors can occur in deciding which medicine and …

Objective Multiplicity in terminology has been suggested as a possible explanation for the
variation in the prevalence of medication errors. So far, few empirical studies have …

Background The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) first Quality Chasm report, To Err Is Human:
Building a Safer Health System, 1 stated that medication-related errors (a subset of medical …

verrue c., mehuys e., boussery k., remon j.‐p. & petrovic m.(2010) Tablet‐splitting: a common
yet not so innocent practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing 67 (1), 26–32. Abstract Aim. This …

BACKGROUND:: Nursing home residents are prescribed more medications than patients in
any other clinical setting. Although pharmacotherapy for older nursing home residents is …

This study examined factors that were determined to lead to failures in reporting medication
administration errors (MAEs) for 838 frontline nurses from 5 teaching hospitals in Taiwan …

Aims and objectives. We aimed to encourage nurses to release information about drug
administration errors to increase understanding of error‐related circumstances and to …

Background Patient safety culture concerns leader and staff interaction, attitudes, routines,
awareness and practices that impinge on the risk of patient-adverse events. Due to their …

Objective: To assess patient safety culture (PSC) in the nursing home setting, to determine
whether nursing home professionals differ in their PSC ratings, and to compare PSC scores …

Patient safety culture (PSC) is a critical factor in creating high-reliability health-care
organizations. Most PSC research studies to date have been conducted in acute care …