Integr Pharm Res Pract
January 2016
Background: Dispensing errors are common in hospital pharmacies. Investigating dispensing errors is important for identifying the factors involved and developing strategies to reduce their occurrence.
Objectives: To review published studies exploring the incidence and types of dispensing errors in hospital pharmacies and factors contributing to these errors.
Objectives: The recent emergence of new psychoactive compounds (novel psychoactive substances (NPS)) has raised prominent challenges in the fields of drug policy, substance use research, public health and service provision. The Recreational Drugs European Network project, funded by the European Commission, was implemented to improve the information stream to young people and professionals about effects/risks of NPS by identifying online products and disseminating relevant information through technological tools.
Methods: Regular multilingual qualitative assessments of websites, drugs fora and other online resources were carried out using the Google search engine in eight languages from collaborating countries.
Int J Pharm Pract
December 2013
Background: Medication errors can seriously affect patients and healthcare professionals. In over 60% of cases, medication errors are associated with one or more contributory; individual factors including staff being forgetful, stressed, tired or engaged in multiple tasks simultaneously, often alongside being distracted or interrupted. Routinised hospital practice can lead professionals to work in a state of mindlessness, where it is easy to be unaware of how both body and mind are functioning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To develop and test a handover performance tool (HPT) able to help clinicians to systematically assess the quality and safety of shift handovers.
Design: The study used a mixed methods approach. In the development phase of the tool, a review of the literature and a Delphi process were conducted to sample five generic non-technical skills: communication, teamwork, leadership, situation awareness and task management.
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry
December 2012
Background: This paper presents the outcomes of the 2-year European Union funded Psychonaut Web Mapping Project which aimed at developing and implementing an integrated web mapping system to promptly identify and learn about novel psychoactive substances (NPS; "legal highs") through the regular monitoring of the Internet.
Methods: More than 200 discussion forums, social media, online shops, websites and other Internet resources (e.g.
Objectives: This U.K.-based study aimed to investigate qualified clinical psychologists' perceptions of the value and usefulness of the learning activities experienced during their training in clinical psychology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn the basis of the material available both in the scientific literature and on the web, this paper aims to provide a pharmacological, chemical and behavioural overview of the novel compound methoxetamine. This is a dissociative drug related to ketamine, with a much longer duration of action and intensity of effects. A critical discussion of the availability of information on the web of methoxetamine as a new recreational trend is here provided.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Qual Health Care
October 2010
Objective: To determine the prevalence and characteristics of clinical handover incidents that occurred across a medium-size UK hospital.
Design: A retrospective review of 36 consecutive months of data from the hospital electronic database of critical incidents was conducted.
Main Outcome Measures: Number of incidents reported, characterization of handover incidents according to clinical setting, severity and type of incidents.