How to use the “Naranjo Scale”. This scale is for determining the adverse drug reaction probability; it…
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Questions and Answers About Root Cause Analysis and Medication Errors.
There are certain goals “The Joint Commission patient safety goals” first to identify patients’ safety, dangers and risks, you must have a clear risk assessment. So, this should be clear for example risk of fall or in other countries but especially risk of fall we need to identify patients correctly, but at least by two ways.
When it comes to prevention in prescription medication errors, we need to review the patient’s medication list at each encounter, it’s fairly important not to rely on the memory like …
What are the characteristics of root cause analysis? it deals with all the possible causes of the error to the people could be the patient, the procedures, the equipment, the environment, the medications or organization.
Root cause analysis, which is a main corner for medical errors. We have been introduced to the Reasons Accident Causation Model or as known as “Swiss Cheese Model”, basically, it’s talking about four layers and three layers before the appearance of the error.
So far, we have been introduced to what are the medical errors with other the terminology, what are the different types, what are the main causes?
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