Open AccessMedication Safety: A Need to Relook at Double-Checking Medicines?
Author(s) -
Gek Phin Chua,
Kim Hua Lee,
Gemma Diente Peralta,
John Lim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asia-pacific journal of oncology nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2349-6673
pISSN - 2347-5625
DOI - 10.4103/apjon.apjon_2_19
Subject(s) - patient safety , nursing , likert scale , status quo , protocol (science) , quality (philosophy) , medicine , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , psychology , family medicine , medical emergency , health care , alternative medicine , market economy , developmental psychology , philosophy , paleontology , physics , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics , economics , biology , economic growth
To present a structured evaluation process that provides evidence that the single-checking (SC) system is not only a viable option in reducing medication errors, but also has the added advantage of increasing staff satisfaction.