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Giving Medication Administration the Respect It Is DueComment on: "Association of Interruptions With an Increased Risk and Severity of Medication Administration Errors"
Julie Kliger, BA, BSN, MPA
Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(8):690-692.
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Over the past decade, the health care industry has directed an increasing amount of attention to the problem of patient safety errors. A major area of focus has been medication errors, which are among the most common and costly of clinical errors in US hospitals. Conservatively, 450 000 medication errors occur every year, and annual hospital costs due to errors are estimated at $3.5 to $29 billion.1-6
The process of providing a new medication to a hospital patient is complex; 50 to 100 steps occur from the moment a provider (a physician or nurse practitioner) writes a medication order to the delivery of the drug to the patient.3 The medication administration process (from the time the nurse enters the medication room to collect the medication until the dose is administered and recorded in the medical record) is especially problematic because of the many environmental and workload . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Author Affiliation: Integrated Nurse Leadership Program, Center for the Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco.
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