Journal article
Carers' medication administration errors in the domiciliary setting: A systematic review
- Abstract:
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Purpose
Medications are mostly taken in patients' own homes, increasingly administered by carers, yet studies of medication safety have been largely conducted in the hospital setting. We aimed to review studies of how carers cause and/or prevent medication administration errors (MAEs) within the patient's home; to identify types, prevalence and causes of these MAEs and any interventions to prevent them.
Methods
A narrative systematic review of literature published...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
Imperial College NHS Trust
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Imperial College London
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- e0167204
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-10
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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27907072
- Source identifiers:
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664052
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:664052
- UUID:
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uuid:9298613a-dbfd-4574-9223-454fd18b021e
- Local pid:
- pubs:664052
- Deposit date:
- 2018-08-31
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Parand et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Parand et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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