Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug information inquiries made by staff members of a teaching hospital to a Drug Information Centre from January 2012 to December 2013. Methods: Data were collected from the records of inquiries made by health care professionals to the Drug Information Centre throughout this period. Results: During the study period, the Drug Information Centre received 3,500 inquiries. Of these, 114 inquiries had medication errors. Most errors were related to prescribing, preparation, and administration and were classified according to severity as category B (57%) (potential errors) and categories C (26.3%) and D (15.8%) (actual errors that did not result in harm to the pa...
Introduction: A medication error is any avoidable event that may be related to professional practice...
OBJECTIVE: assess the safety of medication dispensing processes through the dispensing error rate. M...
Background: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at r...
Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug informatio...
Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug informatio...
Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug informatio...
This study analyzes the influence of medical prescriptions' writing on the occurrence of medication ...
OBJECTIVES: To describe the pharmacological characteristics of medicines involved in administration ...
This was a retrospective, descriptive and documental study with the aim of identifying adverse drug ...
Objective: this study analyzes the medication errors reported to a pharmacovigilance system by 26 ho...
Introduction: Medication errors outside the hospital have been poorly studied despite representing a...
Reporting systems are a valuable tool for detecting errors, analysing them, and for designing initia...
Reporting systems are a valuable tool for detecting errors, analysing them, and for designing initia...
This study analyzes the influence of medical prescriptions' writing on the occurrence of medication ...
Introduction: The use of drugs may involve medication errors leading to hospitalization, increased c...
Introduction: A medication error is any avoidable event that may be related to professional practice...
OBJECTIVE: assess the safety of medication dispensing processes through the dispensing error rate. M...
Background: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at r...
Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug informatio...
Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug informatio...
Objective: To identify and describe actual or potential medication errors related to drug informatio...
This study analyzes the influence of medical prescriptions' writing on the occurrence of medication ...
OBJECTIVES: To describe the pharmacological characteristics of medicines involved in administration ...
This was a retrospective, descriptive and documental study with the aim of identifying adverse drug ...
Objective: this study analyzes the medication errors reported to a pharmacovigilance system by 26 ho...
Introduction: Medication errors outside the hospital have been poorly studied despite representing a...
Reporting systems are a valuable tool for detecting errors, analysing them, and for designing initia...
Reporting systems are a valuable tool for detecting errors, analysing them, and for designing initia...
This study analyzes the influence of medical prescriptions' writing on the occurrence of medication ...
Introduction: The use of drugs may involve medication errors leading to hospitalization, increased c...
Introduction: A medication error is any avoidable event that may be related to professional practice...
OBJECTIVE: assess the safety of medication dispensing processes through the dispensing error rate. M...
Background: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at r...