Clinical review: Medication errors in critical care
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Critical Care
- Vol. 12 (2) , 208
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc6813
Abstract
Medication errors in critical care are frequent, serious, and predictable. Critically ill patients are prescribed twice as many medications as patients outside of the intensive care unit (ICU) and nearly all will suffer a potentially life-threatening error at some point during their stay. The aim of this article is to provide a basic review of medication errors in the ICU, identify risk factors for medication errors, and suggest strategies to prevent errors and manage their consequences.Keywords
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