title: [Medication safety in surgery. Error risk areas and improvements proposed by the nurses].
abstract: We describe the process of implementation of improvements for patient safety in the administration of medication in the operating room.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To know the weaknesses of the operating room that can contribute to an incident related to the medication and the administration of intravenous fluids in the operating room, and to place improvement strategies to reduce or prevent errors based on the experiences of the nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative consensus by expert nurses group and questionnaire about the levels of risk that they attribute to each of the categories of analysis. We explore their experiences about safety in the operating room and their proposals for controlling medication errors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified as areas of greatest risk the providers, the prescription and the processing, as well as the weaknesses of the professional culture of patient safety and improvement proposals.
authors.forename: Matilde
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Celma Vicente
authors.forename: Ma Carmen
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Martín Cebrián
authors.forename: Ma Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Casanova Forner
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cano Gómez
authors.forename: Ma Dolores Cano-Caballero
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Gálvez
authors.forename: Ma Ascensión
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez López
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D061214:Patient Safety; D012307:Risk Factors; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative