M Husch, C Sullivan, D Rooney, C Barnard, M … - Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2005 - qshc.bmj.com Results: A total of 426 medications were observed infusing through an IV pump.
Of these, 285 (66.9%) had one or more errors associated with their
administration. There were 389 documented errors overall; 37 were “rate ... Cited by 53 - Related articles - All 9 versions
K Wilson, M Sullivan - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2004 - ASHP K AREN W ILSON , P HARM .D., is Clinical Pharmacist, Memorial Health- care
System, Chattanooga, TN; when this article was written she was a pharmacy
practice resident, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Nashville, ... Cited by 38 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
K Rosenthal - Nursing Management, 2004 - journals.lww.com More people die annually from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents,
breast cancer, or AIDS, according to data from the US Centers for Disease
Control and Pre- vention.1 Preventable adverse drug events cause more than ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - All 2 versions
- ►ptsafetyresearch.org [PDF] JM Rothschild, CA Keohane, EF Cook, EJ … - Critical care medicine, 2005 - journals.lww.com Intravenous medications are vital in the therapeutic management of hospital-
ized patients and are often delivered with infusion pump systems. Critically ill
pa- tients are particularly susceptible to ADEs (7) and frequently receive ... Cited by 116 - Related articles - All 17 versions
I Hatcher, M Sullivan, J Hutchinson, S … - Journal of Nursing Administration, 2004 - journals.lww.com Improving medication safety at the point of care-particularly for high-risk
drugs-is a major concern of nursing administrators. The medication errors most
likely to cause harm are administration errors related to infusion of ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►bmj.com K Taxis, N Barber - British Medical Journal, 2003 - qshc.bmj.com Results: 265 IV drug errors were identified during observation of 483 drug
preparations and 447 administrations. The most common type of error was the
deliberate violation of guidelines when injecting bolus doses faster than ... Cited by 62 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►highwire.org K Taxis, N Barber - Bmj, 2003 - bmjcom.highwire.org Little prospective research has been done into the incidence, causes, and
severity of intravenous drug errors. Single site studies carried out on one or
two wards have reported errors in preparing and administering intravenous ... Cited by 143 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►wisc.edu [PDF] TB Wetterneck, KA Skibinski, TL Roberts, SM … - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2006 - medscape.com Purpose: Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) was used to evaluate a smart
iv pump as it was implemented into a redesigned medication-use process. Summary:
A multidisciplinary team conducted a FMEA to guide the implementation of a ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
