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Elimination of emergency department medication errors due to estimated weights. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Elimination of emergency department medication errors due to estimated weights. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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  • Published March 2017

Elimination of emergency department medication errors due to estimated weights.



    Inaccurate assessments of patient weight can lead to medication dosing errors. This commentary describes how a single-center quality improvement project drew from errors in the emergency department associated with incorrect patient weight estimates and applied storytelling, Lean Six Sigma, and Fishbone diagram approaches to develop and test a method of entering weights that eliminated these errors during the 6-month intervention period.














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