Identifying risks areas related to medication administrations - text mining analysis using free-text descriptions of incident reports.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Some medications carry increased risk of patient harm when they are given in error. In incident reports, names of the medications that are involved in errors could be found written both in a specific medication field and/or within the free text description of the incident. Analysing only the names of the medications implicated in a specific unstructured medication field does not give information of the associated factors and risk areas, but when analysing unstructured free text descriptions, the information about the medication involved and associated risk factors may be buried within other non-relevant text. Thus, the aim of this study was to extract medication names most commonly used in free text descriptions of medication administration incident reports to identify terms mos

SUBMITTER: Harkanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6829803 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature