title: Distinguishing objective from subjective assessments of the severity of medication-related safety events among people with Parkinson's disease: a qualitative study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Safety events indicating medication-related errors in Parkinson's disease (PD) are common but seldom studied, particularly from lay perspectives. Our objective was to study the meaning and significance to people living with PD of their experience of safety events.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty qualitative interviews were conducted by telephone with purposively sampled individuals with PD, a proxy, or both, throughout New Zealand. Themes identified from the data included joint assessments of the objective and subjective severity of the individual safety events.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most of the events indicated minor objective errors, whose severity was sometimes perceived as major, especially in the face of callous communication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Variation between objective and subjective assessments of the severity of possible errors indicated by safety events highlight the importance of distinguishing between, and using, both forms of assessment.
authors: Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. s.buetow@auckland.ac.nz
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Buetow
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Henshaw
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Cha
authors: D
authors: D
authors: O'Sullivan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents