Medical Xpress August 5, 2021
Recommendations from a new 10-year analysis of patient safety incidents in hospital acute medical units across England and Wales include the introduction of electronic prescribing and monitoring systems, checklists to reduce diagnostic errors, and an increased presence of senior clinicians and pharmacists overnight and at the weekends to reduce the vulnerability of less experienced staff.
The research, by Cardiff University and University College London, published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, is the first analysis of all the severe harm and death incident reports occurring in acute medical units in England and Wales. It shows the most common incident types were diagnostic errors, medication-related errors and failures in monitoring patients.
Acute medical units were introduced in...
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