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2.2 Pediatric Medication Errors in the Postanesthesia Care Unit: Analysis of MEDMARX Data
Author(s) -
Payne Christopher H.,
Smith Christopher R.,
Newkirk Laura E.,
Hicks Rodney W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(07)60147-1
Subject(s) - medication error , medicine , unit (ring theory) , population , harm , descriptive statistics , statistics , emergency medicine , medical emergency , patient safety , health care , environmental health , mathematics , psychology , social psychology , mathematics education , economics , economic growth
• MEDICATION ERRORS involving pediatric patients in the postanesthesia care unit may occur as frequently as one in every 20 medication orders and are more likely to cause harm when compared to medication errors in the overall population. • RESEARCHERS EXAMINED six years of records from the MEDMARX database and used consecutive nonprobability sampling and descriptive statistics to compare medication errors in the pediatric data set to those occurring in the total population data set. • NINETEEN DIFFERENT CAUSES of error involving 28 different products were identified. The results of the study indicate that an organization can focus on causes of errors and products involved in errors to mitigate future error occurrence. AORN J 85 (April 2007) 731–740.