Approaches to decreasing medication and other care errors in the ICU.

Andreas Valentin

Review

Approaches to decreasing medication and other care errors in the ICU.

September 25, 2013

Valentin A. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2013;19(5):474-9.

View more articles from the same authors.

This review examines strategies to reduce errors in the intensive care unit and highlights system-based approaches and safety culture as key elements to improving safety.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Attitude is everything?: The impact of workload, safety climate, and safety tools on medical errors: a study of intensive care units.

October 8, 2013

Errors in administration of parenteral drugs in intensive care units: multinational prospective study.

March 3, 2011

How safe is my intensive care unit? An overview of error causation and prevention.

January 5, 2012

Patient safety in intensive care: results from the multinational Sentinel Events Evaluation (SEE) study.

September 30, 2010

The randomized AMBORA trial: impact of pharmacological/pharmaceutical care on medication safety and patient-reported outcomes during treatment with new oral anticancer agents.

April 21, 2021

Not sick enough to worry? "Influenza-like" symptoms and work-related behavior among healthcare workers and other professionals: results of a global survey.

June 3, 2020

Strength of safety measures introduced by medical practices to prevent a recurrence of patient safety incidents: an observational study.

September 7, 2022

Unconscious bias among health professionals: a scoping review.

September 27, 2023

Team relations and role perceptions during anesthesia crisis management in magnetic-resonance imaging settings: a mixed-methods exploration.

March 20, 2024

A symptom-checker for adult patients visiting an interdisciplinary emergency care center and the safety of patient self-triage: real-life prospective evaluation.

July 17, 2024

Related Resources

Emergency department monitor alarms rarely change clinical management: an observational study.

September 16, 2020

Sound the alarm.

June 27, 2018

Medical audible alarms: a review.

January 7, 2015

Medication safety and knowledge-based functions: a stepwise approach against information overload.

October 16, 2013

The proportion of clinically relevant alarms decreases as patient clinical severity decreases in intensive care units: a pilot study.

September 25, 2013

Patient monitoring alarms in the ICU and in the operating room.

April 17, 2013

Fewer but better auditory alarms will improve patient safety.

April 6, 2011

Patterns of unexpected in-hospital deaths: a root cause analysis.

March 16, 2011

Alarm algorithms in critical care monitoring.

March 1, 2011

EMS helicopter crashes: what influences fatal outcome?

July 22, 2010

See More About The Topic

Emergency Departments

Quality and Safety Professionals

Safety Scientists

Engineers

Emergency Medicine

Approaches to decreasing medication and other care errors in the ICU.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Approaches to decreasing medication and other care errors in the ICU.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users