The validity and reliability of observational methods for studying medication administration errors (MAEs) were studied. Between January and June 1998, two pharmacists observed consecutive drug ...

Intravenous (IV) compounding safety has garnered recent attention as a result of high-profile incidents, awareness efforts from the safety community, and increasingly ...

Whenever observation-based methods are discussed, the most commonly cited objection is that observation itself must affect nurses' practice and hence the MAE rate. Logically, however, observation ...