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From a reactive to a proactive safety approach. Analysis of medication errors in chemotherapy using general failure types.
October 28, 2015
Fyhr A, Ternov S, Ek Å. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2017;26(1).
This study applied a novel theoretical framework to medication errors involving chemotherapy drugs to characterize underlying causes. The authors found that working conditions often contributed to medication errors, consistent with prior studies of high-risk medications. These results suggest that vulnerabilities remain despite longstanding focus on safe administration of chemotherapy.
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