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Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study
BACKGROUND: Differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in terms of drug confirmation have not been studied. The purpose of this study was to analyze differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses from the viewpoint of error categories, and to clarify differences in recognit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40780-015-0017-4 |
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author | Tsuji, Toshikazu Irisa, Toshihiro Tagawa, Shinji Kawashiri, Takehiro Ikesue, Hiroaki Kokubu, Chiyo Kanaya, Akiko Egashira, Nobuaki Masuda, Satohiro |
author_facet | Tsuji, Toshikazu Irisa, Toshihiro Tagawa, Shinji Kawashiri, Takehiro Ikesue, Hiroaki Kokubu, Chiyo Kanaya, Akiko Egashira, Nobuaki Masuda, Satohiro |
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description | BACKGROUND: Differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in terms of drug confirmation have not been studied. The purpose of this study was to analyze differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses from the viewpoint of error categories, and to clarify differences in recognition regarding drug name similarity. METHODS: In this study, preparation errors and incidents were classified into three categories (drug strength errors, drug name errors, and drug count errors) to investigate the influence of error categories on pharmacists and nurses. In addition, errors in two categories (drug strength errors and drug name errors) were reclassified into another two error groups, to investigate the influence of drug name similarity on pharmacists and nurses: a “drug name similarity (−) group” and a “drug name similarity (+) group”. Then, differences in error rates of pharmacists and those of nurses were analyzed respectively within three categories and two groups. Furthermore, differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses were analyzed in each of the three categories and two groups. RESULTS: Error rates of pharmacists for both drug strength errors and drug name errors were significantly higher than that for drug count errors, and similar results were obtained for nurses (P < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in each of the three categories. Furthermore, error rate of nurses was significantly higher than that of pharmacists in the drug name similarity (+) group (P < 0.05), while there was no significant difference in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in the drug name similarity (−) group. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that in contrast to pharmacists, nurses are easily affected by similarities in drug names. Therefore, pharmacists should offer information on medications having plural strengths or similar names to nurses, in order to minimize damage to patients resulting from errors. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40780-015-0017-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-47287882016-01-27 Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study Tsuji, Toshikazu Irisa, Toshihiro Tagawa, Shinji Kawashiri, Takehiro Ikesue, Hiroaki Kokubu, Chiyo Kanaya, Akiko Egashira, Nobuaki Masuda, Satohiro J Pharm Health Care Sci Research Article BACKGROUND: Differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in terms of drug confirmation have not been studied. The purpose of this study was to analyze differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses from the viewpoint of error categories, and to clarify differences in recognition regarding drug name similarity. METHODS: In this study, preparation errors and incidents were classified into three categories (drug strength errors, drug name errors, and drug count errors) to investigate the influence of error categories on pharmacists and nurses. In addition, errors in two categories (drug strength errors and drug name errors) were reclassified into another two error groups, to investigate the influence of drug name similarity on pharmacists and nurses: a “drug name similarity (−) group” and a “drug name similarity (+) group”. Then, differences in error rates of pharmacists and those of nurses were analyzed respectively within three categories and two groups. Furthermore, differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses were analyzed in each of the three categories and two groups. RESULTS: Error rates of pharmacists for both drug strength errors and drug name errors were significantly higher than that for drug count errors, and similar results were obtained for nurses (P < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in each of the three categories. Furthermore, error rate of nurses was significantly higher than that of pharmacists in the drug name similarity (+) group (P < 0.05), while there was no significant difference in error rates between pharmacists and nurses in the drug name similarity (−) group. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that in contrast to pharmacists, nurses are easily affected by similarities in drug names. Therefore, pharmacists should offer information on medications having plural strengths or similar names to nurses, in order to minimize damage to patients resulting from errors. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40780-015-0017-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4728788/ /pubmed/26819730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40780-015-0017-4 Text en © Tsuji et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tsuji, Toshikazu Irisa, Toshihiro Tagawa, Shinji Kawashiri, Takehiro Ikesue, Hiroaki Kokubu, Chiyo Kanaya, Akiko Egashira, Nobuaki Masuda, Satohiro Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
title | Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
title_full | Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
title_fullStr | Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
title_full_unstemmed | Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
title_short | Differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
title_sort | differences in recognition of similar medication names between pharmacists and nurses: a retrospective study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40780-015-0017-4 |
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