PTCE - Patient Safety and Quality Assurance - Section 3.5
Identify types of prescription errors including incorrect dose, quantity, patient, drug, and route of administration. (Calculation-based.)
Identify the standard medication error classification types - wrong dose, wrong drug, wrong patient, wrong quantity, and wrong route of administration - and the contributing factors associated with each. Apply this taxonomy to triage errors by severity and determine the appropriate corrective response.
Prescription errorWrong doseWrong patientMedication error classification
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