Factors contributing to reported medication administration incidents in patients' homes - A text mining analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To describe the characteristics of medication administration (MA) incidents reported to have occurred in patients' own homes (reporters' profession, incident types, contributing factors, patient consequence, and most common medications involved) and to identify the connection terms related to the most common contributing factors based on free text descriptions.

Design

A retrospective study using descriptive statistical analysis and text mining.

Methods

Medication administration incidents (N = 19,725) reported to have occurred in patients' homes between 2013-2018 in one district in Finland were analysed, describing the data by the reporters' occupation, incident type, contributing factors, and patient consequence. SAS® Text Miner was used to analyse free text desc

SUBMITTER: Harkanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7702090 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature