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Medication Errors only Make Sense in Specific Context: A Context-Sensitive Understanding of Medication Errors

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • Social Research Corporation

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Abstract

Medication errors are 20% of all medical errors in hospitals. Medication error rates vary through the different steps or contexts of the process: prescribing (49% of errors) to transcribing (1%), dispensing (12%), Administration (49%), Ingestion (3%), and monitoring (5%). Our understanding of medication errors would be improved if research examined errors within each context. We review the different types and sources of error in each context and the factors that lead to different rates of the '5 rights of medication administration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationContext Sensitive Health Informatics
Subtitle of host publicationAI for Social Good - Proceedings of CSHI 2025
EditorsHadiza Ismaila, Linda Dusseljee-Peute, Romaric Marcilly, Peter L. Elkin, Craig E. Kuziemsky, Christian Nohr, Bethany A. Van Dort, Rebecca Randell
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages116-120
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781643685946
DOIs
StatePublished - May 12 2025
Event7th International Conference on Context Sensitive Health Informatics: AI for Social Good, CSHI 2025 - Bradford, United Kingdom
Duration: May 23 2025May 24 2025

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume326
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Context Sensitive Health Informatics: AI for Social Good, CSHI 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBradford
Period05/23/2505/24/25

Keywords

  • context
  • inpatients
  • medication errors
  • workflow

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