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Medication errors-an enduring problem for children and elderly patients

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F12%3A11954" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/12:11954 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11120/12:43903528 RIV/00064165:_____/12:11954

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.659771" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.659771</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Medication errors-an enduring problem for children and elderly patients

  • Original language description

    Objective. To analyze the types and reasons of medication errors, committed by health care professionals, which led to toxicological consultations at the Czech Toxicological Information Centre (TIC). Methods. Inquiries arising from medication errors for2000-2010 were extracted and evaluated from the database of the TIC, recording the consultations of poisonings due to drugs, household products, plants, and mushrooms. Results. From a total of 44,344 calls concerning pharmaceuticals, 215 (0.5%) were denoted by the caller as medication errors; 130 involved children (90 below 5 years of age) and 85 involved adults (30-60 years of age). The most common errors were: improper dosage (60.9%), wrong medication (19.3%), or erroneous route of administration (12.9%). The most frequent medication errors appeared using drugs affecting the nervous system (psycholeptics and antiepileptics), antibiotics, and drugs affecting the respiratory system. Nurses administering the drugs were responsible for 43

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    FE - Other fields of internal medicine

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Others

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences

  • ISSN

    0300-9734

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    117

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    SE - SWEDEN

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    309-317

  • UT code for WoS article

    000307186800008

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database