Al Mardawi, G. H., & Rajendram, R. (2021). Investigation of medication safety incidents using root cause analysis and action. Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (Print), 4(1), 50-52. https://doi.org/10.36401/JQSH-20-X9
This article explains when and how to use root cause analysis and action to investigate medication errors. This resource is useful to reduce the recurrence of medication errors and improve patient safety.
Coelho, F., Furtado, L., Mendonça, N., Soares, H., Duarte, H., Costeira, C., Santos, C., & Sousa, J. P. (2024). Predisposing factors to medication errors by nurses and prevention strategies: A scoping review of recent literature. Nursing Reports (Pavia, Italy), 14(3), 1553-1569. https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep14030117
This review analyzed sixteen studies offering strategies to mitigate medication errors by nurses. The review concluded that educational intervention, verification and safety methods, organizational changes and error reporting as effective approaches to reduce medication errors. This review is valuable as it supports regular review of error reports to identify trends, patterns and root causes.
Al Mutair, A., Alhumaid, S., Shamsan, A., Zaidi, A. R. Z., Al Mohaini, M., Al Mutairi, A., Rabaan, A. A., Awad, M., & Al-Omari, A. (2021). The effective strategies to avoid medication errors and improving reporting systems. Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 8(9), 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicines8090046
This review summarizes reporting culture, effective reporting methods and report analysis and provides recommendations to improve reporting systems. This resource is valuable as it reinforces the characteristics needed by organizations to implement a successful error detection and reporting system to enhance patient safety.