Medication Errors in the Intensive Care Unit

• DOI: 10.4037/nci.0b013e3182a8b516
• Publication Date: 2019-11-26T13:21:54Z
• Authors: Karen H. Frith
• Keywords: Safety Culture

Medication errors in intensive care units put patients at risk for injury or death every day. Safety requires an organized and systematic approach to improving the tasks, technology, environment, organizational culture associated with medication systems. The Systems Engineering Initiative Patient model can help leaders health providers understand complicated high-risk work critical care. Using this model, author combines a human factors well-known structure-process-outcome of quality improvement examine research literature. literature review reveals that factors, including stress, high workloads, knowledge deficits, performance are errors. Factors contributing frequent interruptions, communication problems, poor fit information technology workflow providers. Multifaceted safety interventions needed so system problems be addressed simultaneously.