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Fact Sheets
Both Northern Health and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare have produced short fact sheets which provide a summary of the standard.
Live Literature Searches
Click below to view a live literature search on PubMed on Standard 4: Medication Safety.
Standard 4: Medication Safety
This standard aims to ensure that clinicians safely prescribe, dispense and administer appropriate medicines, and monitor medicine use. It also aims to ensure that consumers are informed about medicines, and understand their own medicine needs and risks. The standard in the second edition is largely the same as the standard in the first edition, with one addition for health service organisations to assess patients’ ongoing medication management and review their medication
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Ghezaywi, Z., Alali, H., Kazzaz, Y., Ling, C. M., Esabia, J., Murabi, I., Mncube, O., Menez, A., Alsmari, A., & Antar, M. (2024). Targeting zero medication administration errors in the pediatric intensive care unit: A Quality Improvement project. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, 81, N.PAG.
Hetland, L. H., Maguire, J., Debono, D., & Wright, H. (2024). Scholarly literature on nurses and pharmacogenomics: A scoping review. Nurse Education Today, 137, N.PAG.
Ottosen, K., & Bucknall, T. (2024). Understanding an epidemiological view of a retrospective audit of medication errors in an intensive care unit. Australian Critical Care, 37(3), 429–435.
Webster, C. S. (2024). Psychology in the operating theatre: the importance of colour and cognition in the redesign of clinical systems for medication safety. BJA: The British Journal of Anaesthesia, 132(5), 837–839.
