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Errores de medicación: estandarización de la terminología y clasificación Resultados de la Beca Ruiz-Jarabo 2000

M.J. Otero López, +3 more
- 01 May 2003 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 3, pp 137-149
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Un instrumento util para los comites de seguridad de medicamentos de los hospitales that pretendan establecer programas de notificacion internos, para identificar los fallos in el sistema de utilizacion de medicamentsos and adoptar medidas efectivas de reduccion de errores de medicacion.
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This article is published in Farmacia Hospitalaria.The article was published on 2003-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 118 citations till now.

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Acontecimientos adversos prevenibles causados por medicamentos en pacientes hospitalizados

TL;DR: Es preciso concienciar a los profesionales y a las autoridades sanitarias de the trascendencia de este problema e implantar en los hospitales practicas de seguridad efectivas para reducir los errores de medicacion.
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Adverse events in Spanish intensive care units: the SYREC study.

TL;DR: The individual risk for incidents in critical patients is high and many incidents did not harm patients, some caused damage and a few were related to the patient's death.
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Inappropriate Use of Medication by Elderly, Polymedicated, or Multipathological Patients with Chronic Diseases.

TL;DR: A literature review found that half of patients know what their prescribed treatment is, that most of elderly people take five or more medications a day, and that in elderly, polymedicated people, the probability of a medication error occurring is higher, so strategies based on the evidence should be applied in order to reduce medication errors.
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Terms used in patient safety related to medication: a literature review.

TL;DR: There is a lack of homogeneity in the terminology used in the context of patient safety related to medication within the scientific literature, according to this review.
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La asistencia sanitaria como factor de riesgo: los efectos adversos ligados a la práctica clínica

TL;DR: The IDEA Project seeks to study the incidence of AE related to health care for the first time in Spain with a multidisciplinary approach of the problem taking into account the point of view of health professionals.
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To err is human. Building a safer health system

TL;DR: The IOM report “To Err is Human” proposes an approach for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety by designing processes that are able to ensure that patients are safe from accidental injury.
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Factors related to errors in medication prescribing.

TL;DR: By improving the focus of organizational, technological, and risk management educational and training efforts using the factors commonly associated with prescribing errors, risk to patients from adverse drug events should be reduced.
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Incidence and preventability of adverse drug events in hospitalized adults

TL;DR: It is concluded that ADEs are not infrequent, often preventable, and usually caused by physician decisions and Optimal prevention strategies should cover many types of drugs and target physicians’ ordering practices.
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Severity-indexed, incident report-based medication error-reporting program

TL;DR: The use of a severity-indexed medication error-reporting program based on incident reports and managed through a relational database has revealed problems that are then addressed by other quality assurance measures.
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