Medication Errors Caused by Nurses and Physicians in a Swiss Acute Care Community Hospital: Frequency and Correlation to Nurses’ Reported Workload / Von Pflegefachpersonen und Ärzten/-innen verursachte Medikamentenfehler in einem Schweizer Akutspital: Häufigkeit und Korrelation zur Arbeitsbelastung von Pflegefachpersonen

Abstract

This study was carried out in a Swiss acute care community hospital to investigate the frequency, type, causes and potential clinical consequences of medication errors (MEs) caused by nurses and physicians in all stages of a technology-supported medication process, the relationship between the nurses’ workload and the medication administration errors (MAEs) and their reason for workload.

Keywords

• medication errors
• drug-related side effects and adverse reactions
• medication systems
• medical order entry systems
• workload
• self-report
• medikamentenfehler
• unerwünschte arzneimittelwirkungen
• computergestützte ärztliche verordnungen cpoe
• arbeitsbelastung