Medication administration

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1. Patient safety in NHS Dorset: Summary of a recent meeting held on the safety improvement programme to reduce harm from opiate drugs

   • Medication
   • WPSD22
   • (and 9 more)

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     • Medication
     • WPSD22
     • Prescribing
     • Integrated Care System (ICS)
     • GP
     • Pharmacy / chemist
     • Pharmacist
     • Collaboration
     • Patient safety incident
     • Primary care
     • Pain

   By Patient Safety Learning, Tuesday at 11:00

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   • Tuesday at 11:00

2. Did you know? Extravasation (November 2022)

   • Medication
   • Human factors
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Medication
     • Human factors
     • Patient harmed

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 1 December

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   • 27 views
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   • 1 December

3. Duplicate medication order errors: Safety gaps and recommendations for improvement (1 September 2022)

   • Medication - related
   • Adminstering medication
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     • Medication - related
     • Adminstering medication
     • Pharmacy / chemist
     • Human factors
     • Technology

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 September

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   • 22 September

4. General Pharmaceutical Council patient safety spotlight: the risks of overprescribing Salbutamol inhalers for asthma (31 May 2022)

   • Asthma
   • Adminstering medication
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     • Asthma
     • Adminstering medication
     • Prescribing

   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 September

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   • 14 September

5. Reducing medication errors: a blog from Laurence Goldberg for World Patient Safety Day

   • Medication
   • WPSD22
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Medication
     • WPSD22
     • Adminstering medication
     • Prescribing
     • Human error
     • Innovation
     • Technology

   By Laurence Goldberg FRPharmS, 14 September

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   • 600 views
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   • 14 September

6. General Pharmaceutical Council patient safety spotlight: how pharmacy teams can help minimise antimicrobial resistance (16 February 2022)

   • Adminstering medication
   • Pharmacy / chemist
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     • Adminstering medication
     • Pharmacy / chemist
     • Prescribing

   By Patient Safety Learning, 13 September

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   • 87 views
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   • 13 September

7. Safety and Learning Extravasation Virtual Forum (21 July 2022)

   • Adminstering medication
   • Patient harmed
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Adminstering medication
     • Patient harmed
     • Risk assessment
     • Treatment
     • Information sharing
     • Investigation
     • Patient safety incident
     • Negligence claim

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 August

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   • 22 August

8. Unit-dose medicines distribution for hospital inpatients

   • Adminstering medication
   • Medication
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Adminstering medication
     • Medication
     • User centred design
     • System safety
     • Doctor
     • Pharmacist
     • Hospital ward
     • Nurse

   By Laurence Goldberg FRPharmS, 5 August

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   • 555 views
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   • 5 August

9. Extravasation: a patient safety priority

   • Adminstering medication
   • Patient harmed
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     • Adminstering medication
     • Patient harmed
     • Risk assessment
     • Treatment
     • Information sharing
     • Investigation
     • Patient safety incident

   By Patient Safety Learning, 28 June

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   • 28 June

10. Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in patients discharged from a community hospital emergency department (March 2021)

    • Prescribing
    • Medication
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      • Prescribing
      • Medication
      • Emergency medicine
      • USA
      • Research
      • Discharge
      • Patient

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 May

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    • 153 views
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    • 14 May

11. General Pharmaceutical Council: Update on valproate (16 June 2021)

    • Medication
    • Adminstering medication
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      • Medication
      • Adminstering medication
      • Prescribing
      • Maternity
      • Pregnancy
      • Pharmacist

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 April

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    • 20 April

12. Safety considerations for the inpatient medication-use process in pediatric and neonatal patients (1 March 2022)

    • Medication
    • Baby
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      • Medication
      • Baby
      • Research
      • Adminstering medication
      • Paediatrics
      • USA
      • System safety

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 April

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    • 14 April

13. NHS Resolution report - Extravasation (30 November 2022)

    • Human error
    • Complaint
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      • Human error
      • Complaint
      • Legal issue
      • Adminstering medication

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 March

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    • 424 views
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    • 17 March

14. The Green Book: Immunisation against infectious disease (27 November 2020)

    • Vaccination
    • Nurse
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Vaccination
      • Nurse
      • Infection control

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 14 March

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    • 1,685 views
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    • 14 March

15. Including the reason for use on prescriptions sent to pharmacists: Scoping review (25 November 2021)

    • Medication
    • Prescribing
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Medication
      • Prescribing
      • Pharmacist
      • Scoping review
      • Canada
      • Human factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 February

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    • 17 February

16. Safe administration of intrathecal chemotherapy (2003)

    • Medication
    • Cancer
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      • Medication
      • Cancer
      • Adminstering medication
      • Packaging/ labelling/ signage

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 9 February

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    • 9 February

17. Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings (25 November 2021)

    • Medication
    • Hospital ward
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      • Medication
      • Hospital ward
      • Human error
      • Safety process

    By Mark Hughes, 27 December, 2021

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    • 27 December, 2021

18. NHS England: Ceftazidime as a 24-hour infusion

    • Adminstering medication
    • Patient harmed

    By Becky T, 5 December, 2021

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    • 341 views
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    • 5 December, 2021

19. Royal College of Physicians. Medication safety at hospital discharge: improvement guide and resource

    • Medication
    • Discharge
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      • Medication
      • Discharge
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 30 October, 2021

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    • 379 views
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    • 30 October, 2021

20. Risk of medication errors with infusion pumps: A study of 1,004 events from 132 hospitals across Pennsylvania (December 2019)

    • Adminstering medication
    • Medical device
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Adminstering medication
      • Medical device
      • Risk assessment
      • Human error

    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 October, 2021

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    • 12 October, 2021

21. Leveraging single-checks to improve medication safety (23 July 2021)

    • Human factors
    • Root cause anaylsis
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      • Human factors
      • Root cause anaylsis
      • Adminstering medication
      • Investigation
      • Human error
      • Policies / Protocols / Procedures

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 September, 2021

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    • 27 September, 2021

22. Associations between double-checking and medication administration errors: a direct observational study of paediatric inpatients (7 August 2020)

    • Medication
    • Paediatrics
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Medication
      • Paediatrics
      • protocols and procedures
      • Safety process
      • Human error
      • Hospital ward

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 23 September, 2021

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    • 23 September, 2021

23. Naloxone rebound akathisia: It could turn on you (1 August 2021)

    • Prescribing
    • Pain
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Prescribing
      • Pain
      • Mental health
      • Regulatory issue
      • Substance / Drug abuse
      • Self harm/ suicide

    By Patient Safety Learning, 8 September, 2021

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    • 391 views
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    • 8 September, 2021

24. PROTECTED-UK – Clinical pharmacist interventions in the UK critical care unit: exploration of relationship between intervention, service characteristics and experience level (4 October 2016)

    • Pharmacist
    • Pharmacy / chemist
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Pharmacist
      • Pharmacy / chemist
      • Data
      • Research

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 August, 2021

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    • 17 August, 2021

25. Investigating the prevalence and causes of prescribing errors in general practice: The PRACtICe Study (May 2012)

    • Research
    • Prescribing
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Research
      • Prescribing
      • Medication
      • GP practice
      • Human error

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 July, 2021

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    • 1 July, 2021