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Article: The frequency and nature of drug administration error during anaesthesia
- Article from:
- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Australian Society of Anaesthetists Oct 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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SUMMARY
We aimed to establish the frequency and nature of drug administration error in anaesthesia (a significant subset of error in medicine) at two hospitals.
Anaesthetists were asked to return a study form anonymously for every anaesthetic, indicating whether or not a drug administration error or pre-error (defined as any incident with potential to become an error) had occurred. Further details were sought if the response was affirmative.
From 10806 anaesthetics, 7794 study forms were returned, representing response rates of 80% from Hospital A and 57% from Hospital B (72% overall). The frequency (95% confidence intervals) of drug administration error, of any type, per anaesthetic was ...