Carers' Medication Administration Errors in the Domiciliary Setting: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Medications are mostly taken in patients' own homes, increasingly administered by carers, yet studies of medication safety have been largely conducted in the hospital setting. We aimed to review studies of how carers cause and/or prevent medication administration errors (MAEs) within the patient's home; to identify types, prevalence and causes of these MAEs and any interventions to prevent them.

Methods

A narrative systematic review of literature published between 1 Jan 1946 and 23 Sep 2013 was carried out across the databases EMBASE, MEDLINE, PSYCHINFO, COCHRANE and CINAHL. Empirical studies were included where carers were responsible for preventing/causing MAEs in the home and standardised tools used for data extraction and quality assessment.

Results

Thirty

SUBMITTER: Parand A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5132322 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature