Association of Interruptions With an Increased Risk and Severity of Medication Administration Errors

Westbrook, Johanna

doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2010.65

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Association of Interruptions With an Increased Risk and Severity of Medication Administration Errors

Published in Archives of Internal Medicine • Apr 26, 2010

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Johanna Westbrook

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Interruptions have been implicated as a cause of clinical errors, yet, to our knowledge, no empirical studies of this relationship exist. We tested the hypothesis that interruptions during medication administration increase errors. METHODS: We performed an observational study of nurses p...

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Medicine

Observational study

Confidence interval

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