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Medication errors in Intensive Care Unit: Assessment of Knowledge among Critical Care Nurses and implementation of a simple strategy to reduce errors.

2025-07-08 pharmacology and therapeutics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundMedication errors are frequent but preventable. Critically ill patients may suffer, on average, 1.7 medical errors each day & some of which may be life-threatening. Such errors can be life-threatening because of the severity of the patients and comorbidities they have. ObjectivesTo assess the knowledge about medication error and safety among critical care nurses and assess the effect of implementation of focused intervention sessions to improve medication safety. MethodsThis is a qua...

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