Facilitators and barriers to safe medication administration to hospital inpatients: A mixed methods study of nurses' medication administration processes and systems (the MAPS study)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  McLeod, Monsey ^a,b   Barber, Nicholas ^c   Franklin, Bryony Dean ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Health Foundation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING PRACTICE; WORKFLOW; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; NURSES; WORK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84939225381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128958     Document Type: Article

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