Antecedents of severe and nonsevere medication errors.
Chang Y-K, Mark BA. Antecedents of severe and nonsevere medication errors. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2009;41(1):70-8. doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2009.01253.x.
This study examined factors contributing to medication errors and discovered that severe and nonsevere errors differ in their antecedents. The authors suggest that different prevention strategies may be necessary for each error type.