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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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Autores principales: 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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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/).
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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
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title_fullStr Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units: An Umbrella Review of Control Measures
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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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