Medication Errors

Question 1

Harmful adverse drug events (ADEs) can be divided into what 2 categories?

Answer 1

preventable and non-preventable

Question 2

potential ADEs (no harm) can be divided into what 3 classifications?

Answer 2

1. hazards
2. near misses
3. preventable events

Question 3

preventable events (both harmful and not), hazards and near misses fall under what category?

Answer 3

medication incidents

Question 4

adverse drug reactions fall under what category?

Answer 4

non-preventable adverse drug events

Question 5

are rates of adverse drug events higher in teaching hospitals?

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

around ___ percent of ADEs are preventable

Answer 6

36.9%

Question 7

around ___% of ADEs result in death

Answer 7

15.9

Question 8

what are the two most common types of adverse health events?

Answer 8

surgical and drugs

Question 9

medical errors is the ___ leading cause of death in the US

Answer 9

third

Question 10

ADEs that are non-preventable are called ___

Answer 10

ADRs

Question 11

ADEs that is preventable is called___

Answer 11

medication incident

Question 12

what is the ADE?

Answer 12

a drug-related event that causes harm

Question 13

what is a medication incident?

Answer 13

any preventable event that may lead to innapropriate med use or patient harm

Question 14

what is a hazard?

Answer 14

a setting or technology that has the potential to cause harm

Question 15

what is a near miss?

Answer 15

an event that could have resulted in unwanted consequences, but did not bc of chance or it being caught

Question 16

what is a no harm event?

Answer 16

a preventable event in which the incident reached the patient, but they are not harmed by it

Question 17

what is harm?

Answer 17

a temporary or permanent impairment in body functions or structures (including mental, physical, sensory etc.)

Question 18

what are latent errors?

Answer 18

errors waiting to happen; system failures

Question 19

what are active errors?

Answer 19

errors that result from the action of the practitioner (slips and mistakes)

Question 20

what is the slip?

Answer 20

failure of typical reflexive actions often due to lapses in focus, fatigue, stress etc.

Question 21

what is a mistake?

Answer 21

incorrect choices; reflection of lack of experience, insufficient training, negligence etc.

Question 22

what are high-alert medications?

Answer 22

medications that have a heightened risk of causing significant harm when used in error

Question 23

t/f the ISMP has a list of high-alert medications

Answer 23

t

Question 24

what is a high alert paralytic bin?

Answer 24

orange bins used in hospitals to house paralytics so they are easily distinguised from other meds and not given in error, as thi scould be fatal

Question 25

what is tall man lettering?

Answer 25

capitalizing the letters that make a drug name different from another drug with a similar name