Medication Errors

"Medication Errors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Errors in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication with the result that the patient fails to receive the correct drug or the indicated proper drug dosage.

Descriptor ID	D008508
MeSH Number(s)	E02.319.529 N02.421.450.500
Concept/Terms	Medication Errors Medication Errors Errors, Medication Error, Medication Medication Error Drug Use Error Drug Use Error Drug Use Errors Error, Drug Use Errors, Drug Use Use Error, Drug Use Errors, Drug

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Medication Errors".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Therapeutics [E02]
Drug Therapy [E02.319]
Medication Errors [E02.319.529]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Services [N02.421]
Medical Errors [N02.421.450]
Medication Errors [N02.421.450.500]

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Bar chart showing 69 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2009

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	2	2
1999	1	1	2
2002	1	1	2
2003	4	0	4
2004	0	4	4
2005	4	2	6
2006	2	2	4
2007	2	3	5
2008	1	0	1
2009	6	1	7
2010	6	0	6
2012	3	1	4
2013	3	0	3
2015	1	0	1
2016	2	0	2
2017	1	2	3
2018	1	1	2
2019	4	0	4
2020	2	0	2
2021	1	0	1
2023	0	2	2
2024	1	1	2

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Uramatsu M, Kimura N, Kojima T, Fujisawa Y, Oto T, Barach P. Frontline nursing staff's perceptions of intravenous medication administration: the first step toward safer infusion processes-a qualitative study. BMJ Open Qual. 2024 06 27; 13(2).

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Mertes PM, Morgand C, Barach P, Jurkolow G, Assmann KE, Dufetelle E, Susplugas V, Alauddin B, Yavordios PG, Tourres J, Dumeix JM, Capdevila X. Validation of a natural language processing algorithm using national reporting data to improve identification of anesthesia-related ADVerse evENTs: The "ADVENTURE" study. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2024 Aug; 43(4):101390.

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Li CJ, Shah YB, Harness ED, Goldberg ZN, Nash DB. Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions. Am J Med Qual. 2023 Jul-Aug 01; 38(4):196-202.

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Wong CI, Vannatta K, Gilleland Marchak J, Quade EV, Rodgers IM, Reid CM, Dandoy CE, Billett AL, Miller TP, Vaughn S, Daraiseh NM, Liu S, Carle AC, Walsh KE. Preventable harm because of outpatient medication errors among children with leukemia and lymphoma: A multisite longitudinal assessment. Cancer. 2023 04 01; 129(7):1064-1074.

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Viscusi E, Hugo V, Hoerauf K, Southwick FS. In response: neuraxial and peripheral misconnection events leading to wrong-route medication errors. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 12; 46(12):1117-1118.

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Viscusi ER, Hugo V, Hoerauf K, Southwick FS. Neuraxial and peripheral misconnection events leading to wrong-route medication errors: a comprehensive literature review. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 02; 46(2):176-181.

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Bonafide CP, Miller JM, Localio AR, Khan A, Dziorny AC, Mai M, Stemler S, Chen W, Holmes JH, Nadkarni VM, Keren R. Association Between Mobile Telephone Interruptions and Medication Administration Errors in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. JAMA Pediatr. 2020 02 01; 174(2):162-169.

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Haughey CW, Lawson D, Roberts K, Santos M, Spinosa S. Safe Medication Disposal. Home Healthc Now. 2019 Mar/Apr; 37(2):106-110.

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Lauridsen KG, Nadkarni VM, Berg RA. Man and machine: can apps resuscitate medical performance? Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2019 05; 3(5):282-283.

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Daniels CC, Burlison JD, Baker DK, Robertson J, Sablauer A, Flynn PM, Campbell PK, Hoffman JM. Optimizing Drug-Drug Interaction Alerts Using a Multidimensional Approach. Pediatrics. 2019 03; 143(3).

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