Pilot project reduces medical errors
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, April 17, 2008
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An 18-month pilot project helped to reduce the number of medication administration errors by 56.8% at participating hospitals.
The Integrated Nurse Leadership Program demonstration program, led by researchers at the University of California in San Francisco, trained frontline nurses and other clinicians to take on a leadership role in developing clinical protocols and administrative procedures over an 18-month period. In addition to the reduction of medication administration errors at involved hospitals, the study reports a 78.5% reduction in procedural errors and an increase in the mean observed medication accuracy rate from 83.8% to 93%.
Program officials tout the study as the first to validate a specific set of best practices for medical administration and also emphasize the importance of allowing frontline clinicians to be given leadership roles.
Sources: Healthcare IT News, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Other articles of interest:
The reasons behind human error
New Jersey study analyzes nurses' role in medication errors
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