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Medication-related incidents at 19 hospitals: A retrospective register study using incident reports.
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- Electronic Health Record Downtime Events of a Hospital: A Retrospective Analysis from Adverse Event Reports.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
- Bridging gaps in medication therapy management at community health centers: A mixed-methods study on patient perceptions and pharmacists' preparedness.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2025Article
- Patient Safety Incidents in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings: An Expert Opinion Survey.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Paediatric medication incident reporting: a multicentre comparison study of medication errors identified at audit, detected by staff and reported to an incident system.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Observational
- Construction of a Multi-Label Classifier for Extracting Multiple Incident Factors From Medication Incident Reports in Residential Care Facilities: Natural Language Processing Approach.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Negative emotions experienced by healthcare staff following medication administration errors: a descriptive study using text-mining and content analysis of incident data.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Threats to Narcotic Safety-A Narrative Review of Narcotic Incidents, Discrepancies and Near-Misses Within a Large Canadian Health System.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2022Review
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- Factors causing medication errors in an electronic reporting system.Nursing open · 2021Article
- Associations of person-related, environment-related and communication-related factors on medication errors in public and private hospitals: a retrospective clinical audit.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Medication-related incidents at 19 hospitals: A retrospective register study using incident reports.Nursing open · 2020Article
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Abstract
Aim: To examine (a) when medication incidents occur and which type is most frequent; (b) consequences for patients; (c) incident reporters' perceptions of causes; and (d) professional categories reporting the incidents. Design: A descriptive multicentre register study. Methods: This study included 775 medication incident reports from 19 Swedish hospitals during 2016-2017. From the 775 reports, 128 were chosen to establish the third aim. Incidents were classified and analysed statistically. Perceived causes of incidents were analysed using content analysis. Results: Incidents occurred as often in prescribing as in administering. Wrong dose was the most common error, followed by missed dose and lack of prescription. Most incidents did not harm the patients. Errors in administering reached the patients more often than errors in prescribing. The most frequently perceived causes were shortcomings in knowledge, skills and abilities, followed by workload. Most medication incidents were reported by nurses.
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