ReviewDrug safety2019
Standardising the Classification of Harm Associated with Medication Errors: The Harm Associated with Medication Error Classification (HAMEC).
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Medication errors in community pharmacies: a systematic review of the international literature.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
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- Proposed Context-of-Use Evaluation Framework for Medication Management Tasks Completed by Generative Artificial Intelligence.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Don't stop the heart: a performance analysis of large language models and potassium dosing.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Harm to Children from Prescribing and Administration Errors in Acute Care: A Multidisciplinary Panel Assessment.Drug safety · 2026Article
- Evaluating medication discrepancies and harm: a matched cohort study of collaborative pharmacist prescribing in a statewide healthcare system using electronic prescribing.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2026Article
- Gastroenterologically relevant high alert medications prescribed to children with chronic diseases-a consensus-driven single-center pilot study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Rx-LLM: a benchmarking suite to evaluate safe large language model performance for medication-related tasks.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Burnout, depression, and medication errors among family physicians.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of computerised alerts to reduce drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and DDI-related harm in hospitalised patients: a quasi-experimental controlled pre-post study.BMJ quality & safety · 2025Article
- Large language model as clinical decision support system augments medication safety in 16 clinical specialties.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
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- Understanding prescribing errors for system optimisation: the technology-related error mechanism classification.BMJ health & care informatics · 2024Article
- Risk Factors Associated with Medication Administration Errors in Children: A Prospective Direct Observational Study of Paediatric Inpatients.Drug safety · 2024Observational
- Do you wanna dance? Tales of trust and driving trust factors in robot medication counseling in the pharmacy context.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- Clinical and economic impact of medication administration errors among neonates in neonatal intensive care units.PloS one · 2024Observational
- Medication errors by caregivers in the homes of children discharged from a pediatric department in Ghana.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2024Article
- Validation of a method to assess the severity of medication administration errors in Brazil.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- Attributes of errors, facilitators, and barriers related to rate control of IV medications: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2023Article
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Abstract
Classifying harm associated with a medication error can be time consuming and labour intensive and limited studies undertake this step. There is no standardised process, and few studies that report harm assessment provide adequate methods to allow for study replication. Studies typically mention that a clinical review panel classified patient harm and provide a reference to a classification tool. Moreover, in many studies it is unclear whether potential or actual harm was classified as studies refer only to 'error severity'. The tools used to categorise the severity of patient harm vary widely across studies and few have been assessed for inter-rater reliability and criterion validity. In this paper, we describe the systematic process we undertook to synthesise the defining elements and strengths, while mitigating the limitations, of existing harm classification tools to derive the Harm Associated with Medication Error Classification (HAMEC). This new tool provides a harm classification for use across clinical and research settings. The provision of an explicit process for its application and guiding category descriptors are designed to reduce the risk of misclassification and produce results that are comparable across studies. As the World Health Organisation embarks on its international safety challenge of reducing medication-related harm by 50%, accompanying methodological advances are required to measure progress.
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