AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Administration Errors

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target
< All

Administration Errors

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (1)

•Asia (12)

•Australia and New Zealand (15)

•Central and South America (4)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (262)

•Legislation/Regulation (4)

•Meeting/Conference (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (43)

•Press Release/Announcement (7)

•Special or Theme Issue (4)

•Tools/Toolkit (4)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (103)

•Active Errors (132)

•Latent Errors (36)

•Near Miss (12)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (86)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (18)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (87)

•Communication Improvement (41)

•Human Factors Engineering (95)

•Teamwork (4)

•Specialization of Care (16)

•Logistical Approaches (26)

•Culture of Safety (20)

•Technologic Approaches (97)

•Education and Training (68)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (1)

•Medicine (209)

•Nursing (102)

•Pharmacy (89)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (278)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (272)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (102)

•Patients (20)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (208)

•Psychiatric Facilities (4)

•Residential Facilities (11)

•Ambulatory Care (22)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

•Patient Transport (3)

1 - 20 of 334

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

STUDY

No interruptions please: impact of a no interruption zone on medication safety in intensive care units.

Anthony K, Wiencek C, Bauer C, Daly B, Anthony MK. Crit Care Nurse. 2010;30:21-29.

STUDY

Empowering frontline nurses: a structured intervention enables nurses to improve medication administration accuracy.

Kliger J, Blegen MA, Gootee D, O'Neil E. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:604-612.

STUDY

Nurse interruptions pre- and post-implementation of a point-of-care medication administration system.

Stamp KD, Willis DG. J Nurs Care Qual. 2010;25:231-239.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Guidelines for timely medication administration: response to the CMS "30-minute rule."

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. January 13, 2011;16:1-4.

STUDY

Nurses' clinical reasoning: processes and practices of medication safety.

Dickson GL, Flynn L. Qual Health Res. 2012;22:3-16.

STUDY

Designing for distractions: a human factors approach to decreasing interruptions at a centralised medication station.

Colligan L, Guerlain S, Steck SE, Hoke TR. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:939-947.

STUDY

Nursing care quality and adverse events in US hospitals.

Lucero RJ, Lake ET, Aiken LH. J Clin Nurs. 2010;19:2185-2195.

STUDY

Medication Administration Time Study (MATS): nursing staff performance of medication administration.

Elganzouri ES, Standish CA, Androwich I. J Nurs Adm. 2009;39:204-210.

STUDY

Adverse drug events in hospitalized cardiac patients.

Fanikos J, Cina JL, Baroletti S, Fiumara K, Matta L, Goldhaber SZ. Am J Cardiol. 2007;100:1465-1469.

STUDY

Reducing interruptions to improve medication safety.

Freeman R, McKee S, Lee-Lehner B, Pesenecker J. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013;28:176-185.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Design for reliability: barcoded medication administration.

Hayden AC, Lanoue ET, Still CJ. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. July/August 2011;8:12-20.

STUDY

Effects of technological interventions on the safety of a medication-use system.

Skibinski KA, White BA, Lin LI, Dong Y, Wu W. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64:90-96.

STUDY

Bar code medication administration technology: characterization of high-alert medication triggers and clinician workarounds.

Miller DF, Fortier CR, Garrison KL. Ann Pharmacother. 2011;45:162-168.

REVIEW

Medication administration technologies and patient safety: a mixed-method systematic review.

Wulff K, Cummings GG, Marck P, Yurtseven O. J Adv Nurs. 2011;67:2080-2095.

STUDY

Identifying the 'right patient': nurse and consumer perspectives on verifying patient identity during medication administration.

Kelly T, Roper C, Elsom S, Gaskin C. Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2011;20:371-379.

COMMENTARY

Time to get off this pig's back?: the human factors aspects of the mismatch between device and real-world knowledge in the health care environment.

Nunnally ME, Bitan Y. J Patient Saf. 2006;2:124-131.

STUDY

Comparing errors in ED computer-assisted vs conventional pediatric drug dosing and administration.

Yamamoto L, Kanemori J. Am J Emerg Med. 2010;28:588-592.

COMMENTARY

Improving the safety of medication administration using an interactive CD-ROM program.

Schneider PJ, Pedersen CA, Montanya KR, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63:59-64.

STUDY

Prevalence of medication administration errors in two medical units with automated prescription and dispensing.

Rodriguez-Gonzalez CG, Herranz-Alonso A, Martin-Barbero ML, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19:72-78.

STUDY

Association of interruptions with an increased risk and severity of medication administration errors.

Westbrook JI, Woods A, Rob MI, Dunsmuir WTM, Day RO. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:683-690.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >