Wake Up Safe is a quality improvement initiative of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia that contains a deidentified registry of serious adverse events occurring in pediatric anesthesia....
The acronym LASA (look-alike sound-alike) denotes the problem of confusing similar- looking and/or sounding drugs accidentally. The most common causes of medication error jeopardizing pat...
A large portion of persons who commit elder mistreatment have long been known to have indicators of substance abuse and/or mental health conditions (SAMHC). However, few studies have spec...
Some factors have been identified as contributing to medical errors, such as labels, appearance and location of ampoules. We present a case of accidental injection of tranexamic acid inst...
The authors describe four models of incorporating elder-mistreatment curricular content and collaboration with adult protective service (APS) community service agencies into geriatrics me...
来源:《Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges》 2002 年 77卷 11期
Adult Protective Services (APS) workers in California investigate complaints of elder abuse and must determine the validity of a complaint with minimal guidelines. It is unclear whether A...
来源:《Journal of evidence-informed social work》 2016 年 13卷 1期
We describe characteristics of patients with in-emergency department (ED) opioid-related adverse drug events, medication errors, and harm resulting from medication errors; identify patien...
Medication errors may involve prescribing, dispensing, preparation and administration of drugs. We report a case in which an administration error occurred due to ambiguous labelling of a ...
Elder mistreatment, defined as the abuse and neglect of older persons, includes physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, caregiver and self-neglect, and financial exploitation. Fifty st...
来源:《Journal of gerontological nursing》 1997 年 23卷 7期