Methodological approaches for medication error analyses in patient safety and pharmacovigilance reporting systems: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medication errors (MEs) are associated with patient harm and high economic costs. Healthcare authorities and pharmacovigilance organisations in many countries routinely collect data on MEs via reporting systems to improve patient safety and for learning purposes. Different approaches have been developed and used for the ME analysis, but an overview of the scope of available methods currently is lacking. This scoping review aimed to identify, explore and map available literature on methods used to analyse MEs in reporting systems.

Methods and analyses

This protocol describes a scoping review, based on the Joanna Briggs Institute methodological framework. A systematic search will be performed in MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), Cinahl (EBSCOhost), Cochrane Central,

SUBMITTER: Tchijevitch O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature