The precise observation system for the safe use of medicines (POSSUM): An approach for studying medication administration errors in the field

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 228, Issue , 2017, Pages 629-633

  Westbrook, Johanna I ^a   Raban, Magdalena Z ^a   Lehnbom, Elin C ^b   Li, Ling ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Evaluation; Medication administration errors; Nurses; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ERRORS; HOSPITALS; NURSING; PEDIATRICS;

DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; MEDICATION ERRORS; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ROBUST APPROACHES;

MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICATION ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS;

DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85021309152     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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