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Chapter 17

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compliance error   an error occuring when patients do not follow their dosing regimen  
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deteriorated drug error   use of an expired medication or one whose properties have beem compromised  
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failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)   a process that evaluates where errors might occur and estimates their potential impact  
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high alert medications   medications that have high risk of causing patient harm when used in error  
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improper dose error   a dose that is greater than or less than that ordered by the prescriber  
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medication error   any error occuring in the medication use process  
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medication misadventure   a general term to describe drug-related incidents  
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monitoring error   failure to review a medication order or associated clinical laboratory values  
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ommision error   a scheduled dose that is omitted entirely  
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prescribing error   error occurring duing the prescribing process  
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root cause analysis (RCA)   a process for retrospectively analyzing an error  
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unauthorized drug error   an error occuring when a drug givent to or taken by a patient was not ordered by an autherized prescriber  
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wrong administration technique error   an error occuring when a medication is given or taken by the wrong route or the use of an improper proceder  
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wrong dosage form error   use of an incorrect medication dosage form  
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wrong time error   administration of a medication dose outside of an established scheduled time  
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