Preventing iatrogenic overdose: A review of in-emergency department opioid-related adverse drug events and medication errors

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 423-431

  Beaudoin, Francesca L ^a   Merchant, Roland C ^a   Janicki, Adam ^a   McKaig, Donald M ^b   Babu, Kavita M ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL HANDOVER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; NALOXONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84930376453     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.11.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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