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Open Peer Review This article has Open Peer Review reports available. http://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-015-0099-1 How does Open Peer Review work? Medication administration error: magnitude and associated factors among nurses in EthiopiaSenafikishAmsaluFeleke1Email author, MuluadamAbebeMulatu2 and YeshanehSeyoumYesmaw3BMC Nursing201514:53DOI: 10.1186/s12912-015-0099-1© http://www.hsj.gr/medicine/prevention-of-medication-errors-made-by-nurses-in-clinical-practice.php?aid=3109 Feleke et al.2015Received: 26October2014Accepted: 30September2015Published: 21October2015 Open Peer Review reports Abstract Background The significant impact of medication administration errors affect patients in terms medication errors of morbidity, mortality, adverse drug events, and increased length of hospital stay. It also increases costs for clinicians and healthcare systems. Due to this, assessing the magnitude and associated factors of medication administration error has a significant contribution for improving the quality of patient care. medication errors in The aim of this study was to assess the magnitude and associated factors of medication administration errors among nurses at the Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital inpatient department. Methods A prospective, observation-based, cross-sectional study was conducted from March 24–April 7, 2014 at the Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital inpatient department. A total of 82 nurses were interviewed using a pre-tested structured questionnaire, and observed while administering 360 medications by using a checklist supplemented with a review of medication charts. Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 20 software package and logistic regression was done to identify possible factors associated with medication administration error. Result The incidence of medication administration error was 199 (56.4%). The majority (87.5%) of the medications have documentation error, followed by technique error 263 (73.1%) and time error 193 (53.6%). Variables which were si
for Authors Information for Editors Information for Reviewers Citations Contact Us Prevention of medication errors made by nurses in clinical practice Efstratios Athanasakis* Nursing Student, Alexander Technological Educational Institution, Thessaloniki Corresponding Author: Athanasakis Efstratios, str Imvrou 9, Pilea, Thessaloniki, Greece, Post code: 55535, Tel: +306974992897, E-mail: stratosathanasakis@yahoo.gr Related article at Pubmed, Scholar Google Visit for more related articles at Health Science Journal Abstract Background: Medication administration to patients is a part of clinical nursing practice with high risk of errors occurrence. The causing factors of medication errors are either individual or systemic. In order to prevent errors before, the establishment of protective measures is pivotal. Purpose: To explore the protective measures taken by nurses to prevent medication errors in clinical practice. Method and material: A search of Medline, Science Direct and Cochrane Library was conducted to retrieve literature published from January 2000 until August 2011. Results: The protective measures against medication errors are related with the preparation and administration of medications, the dosing calculations skills of nurses, the nursing education, the oral medication orders, the interdisciplinary collaboration, the manager nurses and changes in health systems’ issues relevant with medication management. Conclusions: This review paper summarizes the preventive measures of medication errors made by nurses. As it is obvious, there is a plenty of factors that need to be applied in health units to succeed low medication error rate. Because of the significance of the subject, further research is warranted to prove the effectiveness of every measure in the prevention of medication errors. Key words Medication errors, prevention, nurses. Introduction Safety during patient hospitalization consists one of their rights and also the first priority of health professionals. Errors that occur during the application of medical/nursing interventions or patient hospitalization have drawn health researchers’ attention over the last decade. Errors appearing in the hospital settings concern a lot of incidents like patients falls, use of wrong equipment, sores, hospitals infections, improper management of clinical situations and medication errors. Medication error 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 health professional, patient or consumer”.1 It is estimate