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This paper presents the key issues of the use of intravenous infusion pumps to be able to further develop strategies that will improve patient safety and prevent medication errors. The study was conducted in four wards in a Finnish tertiary hospital. These units included medical intensive care unit, surgical intensive care unit, general medical unit and general surgical ward. Multi-disciplinary team, nurses and pharmacists, performed observations (N=492) on the units. The results indicated that errors were rated as A – B in the NCC MERP harm index. Lack of patient identification bands on some units and inadequate allergy documentation appeared as risk factors. Furthermore medication processes varied within the units especially in administering and documenting. In spite of the Electronic Patient Record system, several overlapping documentation forms were in use. Through this prevalence study, violation errors of hospital policy were found that could potentially place patients at risk.
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Kivekäs, E., Haatainen, K., Kokki, H., Saranto, K. (2014). Evaluation of Intravenous Medication Errors with Infusion Pumps. In: Saranto, K., Castrén, M., Kuusela, T., Hyrynsalmi, S., Ojala, S. (eds) Safe and Secure Cities. WIS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 450. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10211-5_8
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