- 5.3%
involved a medication error (ME) and/or adverse drug event (ADE)
- Of
these, 79.3% were preventable
- The
events included 79.3% errors and 47.2% ADEs
- 20.9%
of the errors had little potential for harm
- 64.7%
of the errors were serious, 33.3% were significant, and 2.0% were
life-threatening
Source: "Evaluation of Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events," Anesthesiology, abstract only, October 2015, http://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=2466532
No comments:
Post a Comment