YCCC: NUR 126: "Medication Errors" assignment: Start your research

Articles on "medical errors" from YCCC Article Databases

We recommend the following article databases:

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)
World's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database
Nursing and Allied Health Source (Proquest)
Covers nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.

How to Structure Your Search for Articles:

The search (the keywords and phrases YOU TYPE IN the Search Box to look for articles) can vary.

Here are a few combinations we tried:

Keywords	Database	Articles
"medica* errors" and "case stud" and nurs	Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)	articles
nurses and "medication errors"	Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco)	articles
*insulin and "Medica error"*	All the databases	articles

Use your own keywords and phrases in any of the Databases. Don't forget these tips:

put phrases in "quotations"
separate each concept with and
use the *(asterisk) to search for variants of the word, medica* will include medical and medication

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Websites: General Medication Errors

Start the New Year Off Right by Preventing These Top 10 Medication Errors and Hazards
from Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), Jan. 16, 2020
Medication Administration Errors
from Patient Safety Network, last updated: September 2019
Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals
from Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Feb. 21, 2020
The industry strives for ‘zero harm’, but remains unprepared for today’s complex challenges
from The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, Aug. 31, 2019
"To Err is Human": Medical Errors and Patient Safety in 2018
by Brooke Lucier, January 20, 2019
A Winning Strategy to Improve Hand Hygiene
from Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH), Aug. 4, 2020
Journal study evaluates success of automated machine learning system to prevent medication prescribing errors
from the Joint Commission, December 30 2019
A Case of Medication Error: Conversion Factors in Clinical Calculations
Article originally from CBSNewYork, Oct. 26, 2011. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, including teaching questions for thought, originally published Nov. 13, 2014
Strategies to Reduce Medication Errors: Working to Improve Medication Safety
U.S. Food & Drug Administration, last updated Aug. 23, 2019
Medical Errors
From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Medical/Medication Errors

Start the New Year Off Right by Preventing These Top 10 Medication Errors and Hazards
from Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Jan. 16, 2020
Zero Harm is the Goal
from Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH), Dec. 8, 2015
Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
from Patient Safety Primer, Sept. 2019
Medical Errors and Patient Safety
from Boston University School of Public Health; date last modified: January 6, 2016
The Joint Commission issues new report on revised National Patient Safety Goal to reduce harm from anticoagulants
from The Joint Commission, Dec. 13, 2018
Nurse Case Study: Medication Administration Error and Failure to Monitor
From the Nurses Service Organization
Testimony of the Dennis Quaid and Kimberly Quaid
Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U. S. House of Representatives May 14, 2008
Safe Practices in Pharmacy Sterile Compounding Areas
Institute for Safe Medication Practices, June 2, 2011

Abbreviations and Medication Errors

List of Error-Prone Abbreviations
from Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Oct. 2, 2017
Medication Overdose: The Case
Commentary by Rainu Kaushal, in the Patient Safety Network newsletter, April 2003
A Misread Abbreviation That Led to a Digoxin Overdose
Prescriber, June 19 2007

Statistics

ECRI Lists Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2020
from Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH), March 17, 2020
Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
from Johns Hopkins Medicine, May 3, 2016
Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017
from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Jan. 4, 2019
Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016.
from Patient Safety Network, Oct. 10, 2018
Medication Errors
Patient Safety Network, includes cases and journal articles.

Books: Dosage Calculation Material

We have books and eBooks available! You can read the first two titles online as an YCCC student. Make sure you select the link for "Online access for YCCC."