Consults the medicine’s label and the patient’s chart to confirm when it should be administered. In addition to confirming every step leading up to the medication’s administration ...

Chart-review studies define medication errors as errors in the ordering ... Potential ADEs are defined as errors that have the potential to harm a patient (near-misses). These ADEs can be further ...

“Maybe a staff member isn’t able to fully review a patient’s chart and that would lead to the inability to properly administer the medication.” Medication errors that caused serious harm ...

A chart-review study of medication errors in adult inpatients ... Thirty-five errors had the potential to harm a patient; five actually did cause harm. Another study by Bates et al.