User-testing guidelines to improve the safety of intravenous medicines administration: a randomised in situ simulation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

User-testing and subsequent modification of clinical guidelines increases health professionals' information retrieval and comprehension. No study has investigated whether this results in safer care.

Objective

To compare the frequency of medication errors when administering an intravenous medicine using the current National Health Service Injectable Medicines Guide (IMG) versus an IMG version revised with user-testing.

Method

Single-blind, randomised parallel group in situ simulation. Participants were on-duty nurses/midwives who regularly prepared intravenous medicines. Using a training manikin in their clinical area, participants administered a voriconazole infusion, a high-risk medicine requiring several steps to prepare. They were randomised to use curre

SUBMITTER: Jones MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7788229 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature