Title

Leveraging Hfacs To Understand Medication Error In Emergency Medical Services (Ems): A Systemtic Review

Abstract

Medication errors are prevalent in EMS settings, and can occur in as frequently as 21% of patient calls (Vilke et al.., 2006), significantly impacting patient care. However, even with the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), a widely accepted human factors error taxonomy, there is currently no widely accepted systematic method for organizing and understanding medication errors and its antecedents. The current effort seeks to synthesize the EMS medication error literature with the goal of extracting current themes and gaps to offer recommendations for which use of HFACS could to improve EMS medication error research. By leveraging HFACs and incorporating the emerging knowledge of EMS medication error, medication error can be better understood by practitioners and inform interventions aimed to target specific underlying issues. Copyright 2013 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Inc.

Publication Date

12-13-2013

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Number of Pages

1688-1692

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213571375

Socpus ID

84889788760 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84889788760

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