ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures.
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- Understanding Medication Errors in Intensive Care Settings and Operating Rooms-A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Evaluating the Severity of Reported Potassium-Related Errors and Developing Safeguards to Improve Potassium Safety in Critical Care-a Modified Expert Panel Study.Journal of patient safety · 2026Article
- Mapping Error Propagation in Intraoral Scanning Using Reason's Swiss-Cheese Model: An In Vitro Study of Precision Under Repeatability Conditions.Dentistry journal · 2026Article
- Medication Errors Reporting and Analysis:Saudi medical journal · 2026Article
- Relationship between work productivity and patient safety attitudes among intensive and critical care nurses: A structural equation modelling approach.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Medication Errors in Psychiatric Hospitals: A Nationwide Real-World Evidence Study in Saudi Arabia.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of electronic prescription system modifications on reducing prescribing errors in a military hospital.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2024Article
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- Interventions to Minimize Medication Error by Nurses in Intensive Care: A Scoping Review Protocol.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2023Article
- A Brief Assessment of Patient Safety Culture in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Departments.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Medication errors are defined as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer." Such errors account for 30 to 50 percent of all errors in health care. The literature is replete with systematic reviews of medication errors, with a considerable number of studies focusing on systems and strategies to prevent errors in intensive care units, where these errors occur more frequently; however, to date, there appears to be no study that encapsulates and analyzes the various strategies. The aim of this study is to identify the main strategies and interventions for preventing medication errors in intensive care units through an umbrella review. The search was conducted on the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Embase, and Scopus; it was completed in November 2020. Seven systematic reviews were included in this review, with a total of 47 studies selected. All reviews aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a single intervention or a combination of interventions and strategies to prevent and reduce medication errors. Analysis of the results that emerged identified two macro-areas for the prevention of medication errors: systems and processes. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of adopting an integrated system of interventions in order to protect the system from harm and contain the negative consequences of errors.
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