Safety surrounding parenteral nutrition systems.
Parenteral nutrition (PN) is one of the most complex medications administered to hospitalized and ambulatory patients. Despite the successful clinical use of PN for over 3 decades, adverse events continue to occur, resulting in serious morbidity or even mortality. There are multiple points within the PN process for errors to occur: prescribing, transcription, preparation, and administration. Because of the lack of published literature about PN errors, a formal study was conducted to document the nature and severity of harm resulting from medication errors during the PN process.
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA. gss0005@auburn.edu
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D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000592:standards; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000592:standards*; D055656:Prescriptions / Q000592:standards
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations