Prescription Errors In Patients On An Acute Medical Assessment Unit

Prescription errors in patients on an acute medical …

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/journal/prescription-errors-patients-acute-medical-assessment-unit

Prescription errors arising in a ‘front-door’ department are of particular concern because they may well be perpetuated throughout a patient’s subsequent stay in hospital. In this study, prescription errors of all degrees of seriousness were recorded, and in addition, …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - StatPearls

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

A professional whose confidence and morale has been damaged as a result of an error may work less effectively and may …

Prescription Errors in Patients on an Acute Medical …

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Prescription-Errors-in-Patients-on-an-Acute-Medical-Gray-Ullah/5b688363d8af595fb17e75b3458a5427ea567024

Prescription Errors in Patients on an Acute Medical Assessment Unit @inproceedings{Gray2007PrescriptionEI, title={Prescription Errors in Patients on an …

Medication Administration Errors | PSNet

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The Impact of Communication on Medication Errors | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/impact-communication-medication-errors

Medication errors are most common at the ordering or prescribing stage. Typical errors include prescribing the wrong medication, route, dose, or frequency. These errors …

Assessment through acute medical units - Emergency …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK564929/

The Acute Medical Unit (AMU) (also often called the acute assessment unit (AAU) or medical admissions unit (MAU)) is the first point of entry for patients referred to hospital as an acute medical emergency (AME) by …

Prescription quality in an acute medical ward - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19670357/

The aim of this study is to assess the quality of prescriptions in an Acute Medical Assessment Unit (AMAU) at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI). Methods: Prescription …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

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Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems: globally, the cost associated with medication errors has been estimated at US$ 42 billion annually (10). …

Medication prescription among elderly patients admitted …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21929721/

Potentially harmful prescription errors or errors necessitating intervention were also recorded, as were any potential adverse drug-drug interactions. Results: Medications for …

Drug history errors in the acute medical assessment unit …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291057633_Drug_history_errors_in_the_acute_medical_assessment_unit_quantified_by_use_of_the_NPSA_classification

A total of 234 errors were recorded with an average of 1.9 errors per patient. When assessed (independently by four health professionals) against the NPSA …