As in recent mortality studies of atomic-bomb survivors (Pierce et al, 1996; Shimizu et al, 1999), we adjusted for dose error and used a weighted dose (the gamma dose plus 10 times the neutron dose).
Since doing so for all 80 errors on the above list would be a laborious and expensive process, we shall do so for exemplars across four error classes – drug interactions, allergy, dose error and contra-indications.
These systems are meant to improve drug storage security, reduce dosing errors, and improve charge capture, among other features.
Prescribing contra-indicated medications, dosing errors, and drug omissions accounted for 70%% of all errors identified.
The IDEAS prescription chart at least in a simulated context significantly reduced a number of frequent prescribing errors including dosing errors and illegibility.
In a simulated context, the IDEAS prescription chart significantly reduced a number of common prescribing errors including dosing errors and illegibility.
Accordingly, this paucity of PK studies may lead to non-optimized pharmacotherapies and medication-related problems, including drug dosing errors and inadequate efficacy [ 16].
At Tours University Hospital, prefilled syringes containing methotrexate for use in EPs are prepared by the pharmacy to avoid the risk of dosing errors and handling exposures.
Administration of a fixed dose of s.c. trastuzumab would permit less complex handling, avoid the need for dose calculation, reduce the potential for dosing errors, and allow development of a single-use injection device.
Expected benefits include increased convenience for patients and health care professionals, shorter administration time, independence from i.v. catheterization, improved compliance, lack of requirement for dose calculation, reduced potential for dosing errors, and optimized medical resource utilization.
