Medication administration

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1. 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, Tuesday at 12:23

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   • Tuesday at 12:23

2. 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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   • 14 May

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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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   • 14 March

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

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

   By Patient Safety Learning, 17 February

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   • 17 February

7. 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

8. 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

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

   • Adminstering medication
   • Patient harmed

   By Becky T, 5 December, 2021

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   • 5 December, 2021

10. 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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    • 30 October, 2021

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

    • Adminstering medication
    • Medical device
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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

12. 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

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

    • Medication
    • Paediatrics
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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

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

    • Prescribing
    • Pain
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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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    • 8 September, 2021

15. 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

16. Families are struggling to use medicines at home — we must truly involve them in their own safety (26 February 2021)

    • Paediatrics
    • Medication
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      • Paediatrics
      • Medication
      • Patient / family support
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 March, 2021

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    • 2 March, 2021

17. Evaluation of perioperative medication errors and adverse drug events (January 2016)

    • Medication
    • Research

    By Patient Safety Learning, 28 January, 2021

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    • 28 January, 2021

18. Weight-based medication errors: How to tip the scale in the right direction (4 February 2021)

    • Adminstering medication
    • USA
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      • Adminstering medication
      • USA
      • Human error
      • Information processing

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 January, 2021

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    • 16 January, 2021

19. Reducing risk and managing dispensing errors (1 December 2020)

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

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 December, 2020

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    • 3 December, 2020

20. Understanding dispensing errors and risk (10 November 2020)

    • Medication
    • Prescribing
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      • Medication
      • Prescribing
      • Pharmacist
      • Adminstering medication

    By Patient Safety Learning, 30 November, 2020

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    • 30 November, 2020

21. Explore England's prescribing data

    • Prescribing
    • Data

    By Patient Safety Learning, 24 November, 2020

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    • 24 November, 2020

22. NHS England: Support for prescribers

    • Prescribing
    • Medication
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      • Prescribing
      • Medication
      • GP
      • Adminstering medication
      • Pharmacist

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 September, 2020

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    • 22 September, 2020

23. Patient Safety Authority Department of Health: Final recommendation to ensure accurate patient weights (8 September 2018)

    • USA
    • Adminstering medication
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      • USA
      • Adminstering medication
      • Human error
      • Information processing

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 February, 2020

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    • 16 February, 2020

24. WANDS – East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust's medication administration checklist

    • Care home staff
    • Nurse
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Care home staff
      • Nurse
      • Paramedic
      • Clinical administration
      • Creativity
      • Safety assessment
      • Safety behaviour
      • Safety process

    By Claire Cox, 7 October, 2019

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    • 7 October, 2019

25. Institute for Safe Medication Practices: Medication Safety Alert! Video - Episode 1 (July 2016)

    • Medication

    By Claire Cox, 20 September, 2019

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    • 20 September, 2019