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[[File:Dartmouth General Hospital emergency department.jpg|thumb|Emergency Department of Dartmouth General Hospital]]Medication errors are described as issues that lead to incorrect medication distribution or potential for patient harm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/MedicationErrors/default.htm|title=Medication Errors Related to Drugs|last=Research|first=Center for Drug Evaluation and|website=www.fda.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-02-22}}</ref> As of 2014, around 3% of all hospital-related adverse effects were due to medication errors in the emergency department (ED); between 4% and 14% of medications given to patients in the ED were incorrect and children were particularly at risk.<ref name="Weant_2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Weant KA, Bailey AM, Baker SN | title = Strategies for reducing medication errors in the emergency department | journal = Open Access Emergency Medicine | volume = 6 | pages = 45–55 | date = 2014-07-23 | pmid = 27147879 | pmc = 4753984 | doi = 10.2147/OAEM.S64174 }}</ref> |
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Errors can arise if the doctor prescribes the wrong medication, if the prescription intended by the doctor is not the one actually communicated to the pharmacy due to an illegible written prescription or misheard verbal order, if the pharmacy dispenses the wrong medication, or if the medication is then given to the wrong person.<ref name="Weant_2014" /> |
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The ED is a riskier environment than other areas of the hospital due to medical practitioners not knowing the patient as well as they know longer term hospital patients, due to time pressure caused by overcrowding, and due to the emergency-driven nature of the medicine that is practiced there.<ref name="pmid12954674">{{cite journal | vauthors = Trzeciak S, Rivers EP | title = Emergency department overcrowding in the United States: an emerging threat to patient safety and public health | journal = Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ | volume = 20 | issue = 5 | pages = 402–5 | date = September 2003 | pmid = 12954674 | pmc = 1726173 | doi = 10.1136/emj.20.5.402 }}</ref> |
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== References == |
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[[Category:Medical error]] |
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