Enhancement of patient safety has become a priority for health care practitioners and
organizations. Adverse medication events remain a major concern, as drug error is a …

Anaesthetic practice involves the preparation and administration of medicines with a high
potential for harm in a timecritical fashion. The working environment is distracting and …

Medication safety is often thought of as achieving the “rights” of medication administration:
the Joint Commission listed five of these “rights,” 1 and an accurate record of the …

To the Editor, Congratulations to Maximous et al. for conducting one of the first meta-
analyses of medication safety interventions in anesthesia, concluding that multimodal …

The safety information on drug labels of a company marketing the same drugs in different
countries is sometimes different. The aim of the present study is to understand the …

Patients continue to suffer from medication harm despite 40 years of research; anesthesia
providers have been slow to recognize the implications and acknowledge the extent of the …

Commentaire facturers and consumer groups. The main change to the drug label is the
introduction of a critical information panel or field (Fig. 1). This field presents the generic …

Editorial Views the authors reported good interrater reliability in the study. These factors
could account for the high event rates reported by nanji and coworkers, compared with …

BACKGROUND Administering the wrong medication is one of the most feared complications
in any field of medicine. Anesthesia professionals are some of the only providers who …

421 consequences of which are unimaginable. Hence safety features have been and are
being evolved, to complement the anesthesiologist and not to replace him/her. An anesthetic …