Are interventions to reduce interruptions and errors during medication administration effective?: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication administration errors are frequent and lead to patient harm. Interruptions during medication administration have been implicated as a potential contributory factor.

Objective

To assess evidence of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing interruptions during medication administration on interruption and medication administration error rates.

Methods

In September 2012 we searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group reviews, Google and Google Scholar, and hand searched references of included articles. Intervention studies reporting quantitative data based on direct observations of at least one outcome (interruptions, or medication administration errors) were included.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Raban MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3995243 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature