Patient safety in home care: a multicenter cross-sectional study about medication errors and medication management of nurses.

Sandra Strube‐Lahmann; Ursula Müller‐Werdan; Jürgen Klingelhöfer‐Noe; Ralf Suhr; Nils Axel Lahmann

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Patient safety in home care: a multicenter cross-sectional study about medication errors and medication management of nurses.

May 18, 2022

Strube‐Lahmann S, Müller‐Werdan U, Klingelhöfer‐Noe J, et al. Pharmacol Res Perspect. 2022;10(3):e00953.

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Patients receiving home care services are vulnerable to medication errors. Based on survey feedback from 485 home care nurses in Germany, this study found that regular medication training and use of quality assurance principles (i.e., double checking) can decrease the incidence of medication errors in home care settings.

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