As many as 50% of all medication errors occur on admission to or discharge from the ICU, and about 60% of regularly scheduled medications are stopped on ICU admission. 21, 101, 102 Maintaining an ...

Using an electronic medication checklist to gain patient medication histories significantly reduces errors compared with a paper-based checklist, a recent study found. The study, conducted last ...

Manitoba Medication errors blamed on handwriting, tired nurses CBC News · Posted: Apr 15, 2003 10:19 AM PDT | Last Updated: April 15, 2003 ...

Nurses admit to medication errors SHERYL UBELACKER The Canadian Press Published May 15, 2008 ...

Medication errors that actually cause harm are termed “preventable adverse drug events.” For every 100 medication errors, there are between 4 and 10 potential adverse drug events and 1 preventable ...

Hospital medication errors frequent with children Nursing workload, ineffective communication factors in 4 child deaths CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2013 5:21 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18, 2013 ...

Medication errors remain a significant concern across Canada’s home care and long-term care (LTC) systems. While digital eMAR (electronic Medication Administration Records) tools have replaced many ...

Melissa Sheldrick, whose eight-year-old son died in March 2016 after being given the wrong medication, said she is thrilled Ontario is working to change. Shoppers Drug Mart gave Jean Marris the ...

On April 17, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices added more recommendations to its list of medical abbreviations that should never be used. The organization’s List of Error-Prone ...