Reported medication errors after introducing an electronic medication management system

Abstract

The findings provide a new insight into the types of medication errors that are reported during implementation of an electronic medication management system. Extra support for physicians prescribing practices should be considered.

Satisfaction of health‐care providers with electronic health records and perceived barriers to its implementation in the United Arab Emirates

“…These results are congruent with findings from previous studies reporting HCPs' satisfaction with the advantages of access/viewing, documentation and medication administration delivered by EHR systems in hospital settings . Among other HCP groups, nurses in particular reported the greatest satisfaction with the positive impact of EHRs on medication administration, an important outcome suggesting that nurses, comprising the majority of HCPs must be involved in all stages of system implementation .…”

“…Findings from our study suggested that HCPs were generally satisfied with the EHR system as part of their daily clinical practice a few years following its implementation. As expected, these findings align closely with the available literature in which HCPs have reported satisfaction with EHRs in different countries, such as the USA, Australia, UK, Turkey, China, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Kenya . On the other hand, a recent cross‐sectional study to measure HCPs' satisfaction with the EHRs in low‐resource setting hospitals in Ethiopia indicated their dissatisfaction with the implemented system because of poor service quality and only partial use of the system by departments .…”

“…In hospital‐based settings, the most important clinical outcome evaluated is the positive impact of the EHR on medication administration. The EHR contributed to decreased medication errors in two private hospitals in Australia, to increased medication accuracy rates in community‐based hospitals in the USA, to detection of adverse drug events in hospitals in the UK and to improved medication administration processes in emergency units in the USA . Other prominent advantages of EHR adoption in hospital‐based settings have included improved access/viewing and workflow efficiencies and time distribution of tasks in intensive care units in US hospitals .…”

The underreporting of medication errors: A retrospective and comparative root cause analysis in an acute mental health unit over a 3‐year period

“…Staff may then report their perception of the error, or use computer‐suggested choices, and not provide an unbiased account. An unbiased account is more likely to be hand‐written, with greater description and elucidation of the error involved (Redley & Botti ).…”

Tecnologias Envolvidas Na Promoção Da Segurança Do Paciente No Processo De Medicação: Uma Revisão Integrativa

“…O uso de tecnologias duras vêm se intensificando, colaborando para a preocupação de alguns profissionais, seja com o manuseio, a falta de conhecimento ou as falhas no funcionamento que essas tecnologias possam apresentar (39) . Estudo analítico descritivo dos relatórios de erros de medicação aponta que as fases mais afetadas pelos erros são a prescrição (16,4%) e administração (71,5%), em um total de 359 erros de medicação (40) , corroborando com os achados desta pesquisa.…”