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Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures
Medication errors are defined as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.” Such errors account for 30 to 50 percent of all errors in health care. The lit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35885748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071221 |
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author | Dionisi, Sara Giannetta, Noemi Liquori, Gloria De Leo, Aurora D’Inzeo, Victoria Orsi, Giovanni Battista Di Muzio, Marco Napoli, Christian Di Simone, Emanuele |
author_facet | Dionisi, Sara Giannetta, Noemi Liquori, Gloria De Leo, Aurora D’Inzeo, Victoria Orsi, Giovanni Battista Di Muzio, Marco Napoli, Christian Di Simone, Emanuele |
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description | Medication errors are defined as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.” Such errors account for 30 to 50 percent of all errors in health care. The literature is replete with systematic reviews of medication errors, with a considerable number of studies focusing on systems and strategies to prevent errors in intensive care units, where these errors occur more frequently; however, to date, there appears to be no study that encapsulates and analyzes the various strategies. The aim of this study is to identify the main strategies and interventions for preventing medication errors in intensive care units through an umbrella review. The search was conducted on the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Embase, and Scopus; it was completed in November 2020. Seven systematic reviews were included in this review, with a total of 47 studies selected. All reviews aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a single intervention or a combination of interventions and strategies to prevent and reduce medication errors. Analysis of the results that emerged identified two macro-areas for the prevention of medication errors: systems and processes. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of adopting an integrated system of interventions in order to protect the system from harm and contain the negative consequences of errors. |
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spelling | pubmed-93203682022-07-27 Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures Dionisi, Sara Giannetta, Noemi Liquori, Gloria De Leo, Aurora D’Inzeo, Victoria Orsi, Giovanni Battista Di Muzio, Marco Napoli, Christian Di Simone, Emanuele Healthcare (Basel) Review Medication errors are defined as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.” Such errors account for 30 to 50 percent of all errors in health care. The literature is replete with systematic reviews of medication errors, with a considerable number of studies focusing on systems and strategies to prevent errors in intensive care units, where these errors occur more frequently; however, to date, there appears to be no study that encapsulates and analyzes the various strategies. The aim of this study is to identify the main strategies and interventions for preventing medication errors in intensive care units through an umbrella review. The search was conducted on the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Embase, and Scopus; it was completed in November 2020. Seven systematic reviews were included in this review, with a total of 47 studies selected. All reviews aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a single intervention or a combination of interventions and strategies to prevent and reduce medication errors. Analysis of the results that emerged identified two macro-areas for the prevention of medication errors: systems and processes. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of adopting an integrated system of interventions in order to protect the system from harm and contain the negative consequences of errors. MDPI 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9320368/ /pubmed/35885748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071221 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Dionisi, Sara Giannetta, Noemi Liquori, Gloria De Leo, Aurora D’Inzeo, Victoria Orsi, Giovanni Battista Di Muzio, Marco Napoli, Christian Di Simone, Emanuele Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures |
title | Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures |
title_full | Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures |
title_fullStr | Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures |
title_full_unstemmed | Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures |
title_short | Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures |
title_sort | medication errors in intensive care units: an umbrella review of control measures |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35885748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071221 |
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