Medication Error Indicators
Health Search databasePMCAll DatabasesAssemblyBioProjectBioSampleBioSystemsBooksClinVarCloneConserved DomainsdbGaPdbVarESTGeneGenomeGEO DataSetsGEO ProfilesGSSGTRHomoloGeneMedGenMeSHNCBI Web SiteNLM CatalogNucleotideOMIMPMCPopSetProbeProteinProtein ClustersPubChem BioAssayPubChem CompoundPubChem SubstancePubMedPubMed HealthSNPSparcleSRAStructureTaxonomyToolKitToolKitAllToolKitBookToolKitBookghUniGeneSearch termSearch Advanced Journal list Help Journal ListPLoS Onev.10(4); 2015PMC4401721 PLoS One. 2015; 10(4): e0122695. Published online 2015 Apr 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122695PMCID: PMC4401721Quality Indicators for Safe Medication Preparation and Administration: A Systematic ReviewMarian Smeulers,#1,* Lotte Verweij,#1 Jolanda M. Maaskant,2,3,‡ Monica de Boer,4,‡ C. T. Paul Krediet,5,‡ Els J. M. Nieveen van Dijkum,6,‡ and Hester Vermeulen#1,6,7Francesco Pappalardo, Academic Editor1Department of Quality Assurance and Process Innovation, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands2Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands3Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Medical Faculty, Academic Medical Center and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands4Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, the Netherlands5Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, the Netherlands6Department of Surgery, Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, the Netherlands7Department of Nursing, the Amsterdam School of Health Professions, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsUniversity of Catania, ITALY#Contributed equally. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.Conceived and designed the experiments: MS LV HV. Wrote the paper: MS. Literature selection and data extraction: MS LV HV. Critical appraissal with Aire instrument: MS LV JM MB CK EN HV. Selection of indicators: MS LV HV. Reviewing manuscript: LV JM MB CK EN HV.‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.* E-mail: ln.avu.cma@sreluems.mAuthor information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ►Received 2014 Aug 18; Accepted 2015 Feb 12.Copyright notice This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedAbstractBackgroundOne-third of all medication errors causing harm to hospitalized patients occur in the
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resources Information for the public History Overview Introduction Patient-centred care Evidence to recommendations 1 Recommendations 2 Evidence 3 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/sg1/chapter/9-safe-nursing-indicators Gaps in the evidence 4 Research recommendations 5 Related NICE guidelines 6 Glossary 7 Contributors and declarations of interest 8 References 9 Safe nursing indicators 10 Changes after publication 11 About this guideline Share Share Linked In Twitter Facebook Email More... Download Save Save as PDF Save as eBook Save as ePub medication error Guidance Next 9 Safe nursing indicators Safe nursing indicator: Adequacy of meeting patients' nursing care needs Safe nursing indicator: falls Safe nursing indicator: pressure ulcers Safe nursing indicator: medication administration errors Safe nursing indicator: missed breaks Safe nursing indicator: nursing overtime Safe nursing indicator: planned, required and available nurses for each shift medication error indicators Safe nursing indicator: high levels and/or ongoing reliance on temporary nursing Safe nursing indicator: compliance with any mandatory training 9 Safe nursing indicators Safe nursing indicator: Adequacy of meeting patients' nursing care needs Data collection Local collection could use the following National Inpatient Survey questions developed by the Picker Institute which contains a number of questions where patients' experience of care could be affected by the number of available nursing staff: Patients' experience of nursing care on hospital inpatient wards Q.23 Did you get enough help from staff to eat your meals? Q.30 In your opinion, were there enough nurses on duty to care for you in hospital? Q.40 How many minutes after you used the call button did it usually take before you got the help you needed? Patients' experience of nursing care on hospital inpatient wards Q.39 Do you think the hospital staff did everything they could to help control your pain? Patients
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