 Medication Errors
"Medication Errors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Errors in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication with the result that the patient fails to receive the correct drug or the indicated proper drug dosage.
| Descriptor ID |
D008508
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.319.529 N02.421.450.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Medication Errors- Medication Errors
- Errors, Medication
- Error, Medication
- Medication Error
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| 1990 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medication Errors" by people in Profiles.
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Brauner D, Werner RM, Shippee TP, Cursio J, Sharma H, Konetzka RT. Does Nursing Home Compare Reflect Patient Safety In Nursing Homes? Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 11; 37(11):1770-1778.
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Tung A. Challenges in Outcome Reporting. Anesthesiol Clin. 2018 Jun; 36(2):191-199.
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Clay AS, Chudgar SM, Turner KM, Vaughn J, Knudsen NW, Farnan JM, Arora VM, Molloy MA. How Prepared Are Medical and Nursing Students to Identify Common Hazards in the Intensive Care Unit? Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Apr; 14(4):543-549.
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Nanji KC, Patel A, Shaikh S, Seger DL, Bates DW. Evaluation of Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events. Anesthesiology. 2016 Jan; 124(1):25-34.
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Manthous CA, Mokhlesi B. Avoiding Management Errors in Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 Jan; 13(1):109-14.
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Becker BN. Medication Safety + Mobile Health = Patient Engagement in CKD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Aug 07; 10(8):1314-5.
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Paquin AM, Zimmerman KM, Kostas TR, Pelletier L, Hwang A, Simone M, Skarf LM, Rudolph JL. Complexity perplexity: a systematic review to describe the measurement of medication regimen complexity. Expert Opin Drug Saf. 2013 Nov; 12(6):829-40.
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Falck S, Adimadhyam S, Meltzer DO, Walton SM, Galanter WL. A trial of indication based prescribing of antihypertensive medications during computerized order entry to improve problem list documentation. Int J Med Inform. 2013 Oct; 82(10):996-1003.
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Liebovitz D. Perspectives on electronic prescribing and terminologies. Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2013.
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O'Leary KJ, Devisetty VK, Patel AR, Malkenson D, Sama P, Thompson WK, Landler MP, Barnard C, Williams MV. Comparison of traditional trigger tool to data warehouse based screening for identifying hospital adverse events. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013 Feb; 22(2):130-8.
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