Serious medication administration errors are common in hospitals and nurse's interruptions during medication preparation and administration is associated with errors. Various interventions were developed to help prevention of errors such as visual intervention. Investigators aimed to study the effect of a medication safety vest to reduce medication errors. The vest serves as a visible signal to inform others that the nurse is preparing and administering medications and should not be disturbed. Patients and visitors are provided with an informational flyer to inform them about the use of medication safety vests. The hypothesis is that the vest will reduce nurse's interruptions during medication preparation and administration, and ultimately reduce medication errors. The study is a randomized controlled trial in 30 care units of four hospitals in France. Each unit will be randomized in either the control group or the experimental group using the medication safety vest. Nurses of the unit will be selected at random to determine who will be observed during the administration rounds.The observation method will be used to evaluate the error rates in the 2 groups. The number of interruptions and error rates will be evaluated.
Age range
18 Years – 60 Years
Sex
ALL
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Medication administration errors rate
Timeframe: two weeks after implementation of the medication safety vests and flyers