What are incident reports telling us? A comparative study at two Australian hospitals of medication errors identified at audit, detected by staff and reported to an incident system

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Westbrook, Johanna I ^a   Li, Ling ^a   Lehnbom, Elin C ^a   Baysari, Melissa T ^a   Braithwaite, Jeffrey ^a   Burke, Rosemary ^b   Conn, Chris ^c   Day, Richard O ^d,e  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^c St Vincent s Health Network   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic prescribing; Incident reporting; Medication administration errors; Medication error; Safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICATION ERROR; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT HARM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIPTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT HARM; PRESCRIPTIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84924629377     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzu098     Document Type: Article

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