Five errors of drug administration were reported by nurses or physicians, or 0.02% (5/22, 138) of all anticancer drugs given to patients, with only one error being intercepted just prior to administration.
They examine whether errors were intercepted or not, and the frequency, severity, and types of those errors.
By the time errors are intercepted downstream, significant operational cost (time, resources and personnel) has been wasted.
These errors were intercepted by a pharmacist, chemotherapy nurse or clinician, and corrected before any harm was caused to the patient.
1 Percentage of error = (theoretical dose - incorrect dose)/theoretical dose *100 Overall, 36 pharmaceutical errors occurred, involving 0.16% (36/22, 138) of all anticancer drugs prepared, with 30 errors being intercepted.
In addition, two cases of ten-fold dose errors were intercepted with the prescription of 1, 830 mg of etoposide instead of 183 mg and 1, 830 mg of cisplatin instead of 183 mg.
While at the other end, Scott Dann almost punctuated his Blackburn debut with an error when his attempted back pass was intercepted by Zamora.
Romo was intercepted once.
He was intercepted twice.
