Carers' Medication Administration Errors in the Domiciliary Setting: A Systematic Review.

Medications are mostly taken in patients' own homes, increasingly administered by carers, yet studies of medication safety have been largely conducted in the hospital setting. We aimed to review studies of how carers cause and/or prevent medication administration errors (MAEs) within the patien...

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Main Authors: Anam Parand, Sara Garfield, Charles Vincent, Bryony Dean Franklin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5132322?pdf=render