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N M Davis

Publications and source records attributed to N M Davis.

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PubMed1994

Failure mode and effects analysis: a novel approach to avoiding dangerous medication errors and accidents.

It is time that hospitals realize that human error is inevitable and must be anticipated. A technique developed in the aerospace industry and known as "failure mode and effects analysis" involves identifying mistakes that will happen before they happen, and determining whether the consequences of those mistakes would be tolerable or intolerable. This article shows how this practice can be adapted to a hospital environment by using a continuous quality improvement approach. Examples show how actual fatal errors can be prevented.

Accident Prevention↗
PubMed1994

Orientation teaching tool to prevent medication error.

Patients can be harmed and even killed when a medication error occurs. The following questions are based on actual errors which have been reported through the Medication Error Reporting Program (MERP). This teaching tool is intended as a take home test to make newly hired pharmacists aware of common medication errors. An informed practitioner is another layer of safety in decreasing the possibility of a medication error occurring.

Education, Pharmacy, Continuing↗