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Improving Self-Reported Prescription Medicine Data Quality with a Commercial Database Lookup Tool and Claims Matching
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Kali Defever; Becky Reimer; Michael Trierweiler; Elise Comperchio – Field Methods, 2024
Estimating prescription medicine use is challenging due to recall bias associated with surveys and coverage bias in administrative data. This study assesses how making operational improvements and combining both survey and administrative data sources can increase data quality on filled prescriptions. We use data from the Medicare Current…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Health Insurance, Databases, Medicine
What Were You Thinking? Medication Administration Errors in Undergraduate Nursing Students
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Laura Vivienne Sooby – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Medication administration errors (MAEs) present a significant risk for harm to patients and healthcare providers alike, yet little is understood about how nursing students conceptualize MAEs. Similar risks for harm are faced in the aviation industry, yet they have transformed into a highly reliable organization (HRO) using the threat and error…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students, Drug Therapy, Medical Care Evaluation
Impact of Educational Support on Standards of Medication Administration Regarding Nursing Medication Errors in Intensive Care Units
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Falahinia, Gholam Hossein; Maleki, Arezoo; Khalili, Zahra; Soltanian, Alireza – International Journal of Training Research, 2023
Medication errors may arise due to insufficient information on drug use. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of educational support on standards of medication administration regarding nursing medication errors in Intensive Care Units (ICU). The study's participants included two groups of ICU nurses. Both groups were observed…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Nursing, Hospitals, Comparative Analysis
Funnel Plots May Show Asymmetry in the Absence of Publication Bias with Continuous Outcomes Dependent on Baseline Risk: Presentation of a New Publication Bias Test
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Doleman, Brett; Freeman, Suzanne C.; Lund, Jonathan N.; Williams, John P.; Sutton, Alex J. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
This study aimed to determine for continuous outcomes dependent on baseline risk, whether funnel plot asymmetry may be due to statistical artefact rather than publication bias and evaluate a novel test to resolve this. Firstly, we conducted assessment for publication bias in nine meta-analyses of postoperative analgesics (344 trials with 25 348…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Risk, Publications, Bias
Staff Education Module for Bar Code Medication Administration
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Juste, Francoise – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) is a technology-supported nursing tool that has become the standard of practice for medication administration. When used effectively and efficiently, this tool has the potential to reduce medication errors in acute care settings. In a pediatric unit at a major urban hospital in the northeast region of the…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Error Patterns, Pediatrics, Hospitals
Meningococcal Serogroup B Outbreak Response University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ritscher, Alicia M.; Ranum, Nancy; Malak, Joel D.; Ahrabi-Fard, Susann; Baird, Jennifer; Berti, Andrew D.; Curtis, William; Holden, Marlena; Jones, Cheryl D.; Kind, Jennifer; Kinsey, William; Koepke, Ruth; Schauer, Stephanie L.; Stein, Elizabeth; Van Orman, Sarah; Ward, Brian G.; Zahner, Susan J.; Hayney, Mary S. – Journal of American College Health, 2019
A meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) outbreak at a large public university prompted an emergency response to immunize undergraduates. Objective: To report on a successful meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) vaccine clinic response at a large public university. Methods: We assembled the team leaders to write this case report. Results: Activation of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Communicable Diseases, Emergency Programs, Immunization Programs
Work Placements as Learning Environments for Patient Safety: Finnish and British Preregistration Nursing Students' Important Learning Events
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Tella, Susanna; Smith, Nancy-Jane; Partanen, Pirjo; Turunen, Hannele – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Learning to ensure patient safety in complex health care environments is an internationally recognised concern. This article explores and compares Finnish (n = 22) and British (n = 32) pre-registration nursing students' important learning events about patient safety from their work placements in health care organisations. Written descriptions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Nursing Students, Patients