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Oct 21, 2022 · A total of 17 studies were selected for review. Overall, medication errors occurred widely, with prescribing and administration errors emerging as the most common. Risk factors included polypharmacy, dementia, dysphagia, understaffing and lack of communication between prescribers, pharmacy and care staff.
Medication errors (MEs) are common, involving 16–27% of NHRs in studies evaluating all types of MEs and 13–31% of NHRs in studies evaluating MEs occurring at transfer from and to other settings of care . MEs can occur at any step of the medication use process.
Care home manager views on hospital discharge processes from a postal survey were summarized in one paper (Alldred et al., Citation 2015). The other paper highlighted CQC enforcement action resulted from care home staff not aware of all the medical changes for hospital admissions (Gunnell et al., Citation 2020).
Feb 12, 2024 · Medication errors are the most common and preventable cause of patient injury.[1] These errors typically involve administering the wrong drug or dose, using the wrong route, administering it incorrectly, or giving medication to the wrong patient. The reported incidence of medication errors in acute hospitals is approximately 6.5 per 100 admissions.[1]
- Rayhan A. Tariq, Rishik Vashisht, Ankur Sinha, Yevgeniya Scherbak
- 2024/02/12
- 2021
Much less effort, however, has been focused on preventing medication errors in the long‐term care setting, even though in the US alone an estimated 800 000 preventable medication‐related injuries occur every year in long‐term care facilities, 1, 2, 3 and long‐term care patients are probably subject to more medication errors on average than patients in acute care hospitals. 3 In many of ...
Dec 7, 2011 · Background Older people in long-term residential care are at increased risk of medication prescribing and administration errors. The main aim of this study was to measure the incidence of medication administration errors in nursing and residential homes using a barcode medication administration (BCMA) system. Methods A prospective study was conducted in 13 care homes (9 residential and 4 ...
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Apr 29, 2021 · Common medication management mistakes include prescription errors and errors involving the dispensation and administration of drugs, although the degree to which these affect the person under care varies [10,11,12]. Therefore, the caregivers’ good, safe management of medication for the elderly is important, as older persons are vulnerable due to their age and related cognitive and physical ...
