SynthesisQuality & safety in health care2006
Medication errors in mental healthcare: a systematic review.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence and solving strategies of drug-related problems in adult psychiatric inpatients - a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Conceptual and practical challenges associated with understanding patient safety within community-based mental health services.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Pooled it
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- Impact of pharmacist interventions on medication errors in hospitalized pediatric patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2020Pooled it
- Frequency and Nature of Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events in Mental Health Hospitals: a Systematic Review.Drug safety · 2017Pooled it
- Prevalence, incidence and nature of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a systematic review.Drug safety · 2009Pooled it
- Color-coded prefilled medication syringes decrease time to delivery and dosing errors in simulated prehospital pediatric resuscitations: A randomized crossover trial.Resuscitation · 2015Trial
- Color-Coded Prefilled Medication Syringes Decrease Time to Delivery and Dosing Error in Simulated Emergency Department Pediatric Resuscitations.Annals of emergency medicine · 2015Trial
- A realist review of medication optimisation of community dwelling service users with serious mental illness.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Review
- Patient Safety Incidents in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings: An Expert Opinion Survey.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Medication Errors in Psychiatric Hospitals: A Nationwide Real-World Evidence Study in Saudi Arabia.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Understanding the medication safety challenges for patients with mental illness in primary care: a scoping review.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Best practices for documentation of psychotropic drug-drug interactions in an adult psychiatric clinic.The mental health clinician · 2023Article
- Evaluating the safety of mental health-related prescribing in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).BMJ quality & safety · 2022Article
- Biometric palm vein authentication of psychiatric patients for reducing in-hospital medication errors: a pre-post observational study.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- Medication optimisation in severe mental illness (MEDIATE): protocol for a realist review.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Medicines reconciliation at the community mental health team-general practice interface: quality improvement study.BJPsych bulletin · 2020Article
- Drug-drug interactions and pharmacists' interventions among psychiatric patients in outpatient clinics of a teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2019Article
- Medication-related issues associated with the documentation and administration of long-acting injectable antipsychotics.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2019Review
- Patient safety and quality of care in mental health: a world of its own?BJPsych bulletin · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt has been estimated that medication error harms 1-2% of patients admitted to general hospitals. There has been no previous systematic review of the incidence, cause or type of medication error in mental healthcare services.
methodsA systematic literature search for studies that examined the incidence or cause of medication error in one or more stage(s) of the medication-management process in the setting of a community or hospital-based mental healthcare service was undertaken. The results in the context of the design of the study and the denominator used were examined.
resultsAll studies examined medication management processes, as opposed to outcomes. The reported rate of error was highest in studies that retrospectively examined drug charts, intermediate in those that relied on reporting by pharmacists to identify error and lowest in those that relied on organisational incident reporting systems. Only a few of the errors identified by the studies caused actual harm, mostly because they were detected and remedial action was taken before the patient received the drug. The focus of the research was on inpatients and prescriptions dispensed by mental health pharmacists.
conclusionResearch about medication error in mental healthcare is limited. In particular, very little is known about the incidence of error in non-hospital settings or about the harm caused by it. Evidence is available from other sources that a substantial number of adverse drug events are caused by psychotropic drugs. Some of these are preventable and might probably, therefore, be due to medication error. On the basis of this and features of the organisation of mental healthcare that might predispose to medication error, priorities for future research are suggested.
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