Study: Patient-controlled pain meds cause more harm than good
Accreditation Connection, December 4, 2008
Patients are four times more likely to suffer harm due to medication errors when using intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), The Joint Commission’s Journal on Quality and Patient Safety reports.
The study found that patient harm due to PCA errors occurred in 6.5% of incidents versus just 1.5% of incidents of general medication use. PCA errors also resulted in more extreme errors and required more clinical interventions than general medication errors.
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