Influence of Nursing Time and Staffing on Medication Errors: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Administrative Data.

ABSTRACT: Background: Medication errors cause adverse events; however, studies have yet to examine medication errors related to nursing hours while considering ward characteristics in Japan. Purpose: This study investigated medication errors caused by nurses to quantitatively assess ward activity as busyness in nursing duties. Methods: This study considered patients hospitalized in the general wards of 10 National Hospital Organization institutions between April 2019 and March 2020. The study data were obtained from the Diagnosis Procedure Combination system, incident report system, and reports on nurse staffing and work hours. Data for 27,629 ward days with 88,475 patients were analyzed. Multivariate analysis was performed to determine the impact of factors on medication errors. Re

SUBMITTER: Moriwaki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11767928 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature