Background: A “near miss” or close call is a medication error that happened but did not result in injury or damage to the patient. These medication errors (MEs) are captured and corrected before affecting the patient either fortuitously or purposefully by designed system controls...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/8607
Background: Lean Six Sigma [LSS] and Root Cause Analysis [RCA] are powerful quality business tools that cost-effectively improve efficiency and effectiveness of and client satisfaction in healthcare, academia and other industries. RCA, an iterative process helps in the identifica...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2017/31541
Background: Medication safety unit [MSU] streamlines the safe management and use of prescribed medications and reduction in all types of medication errors [MEs], and associated morbidity and mortality resulting in enhanced patient safety, better quality of healthcare services and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/17221
Ahmed T. El-Olemy, Abdullah M. Al-Bedah, Mohammed A. El-Olemy, Asim A. Hussein, Mohamed Khalil, Tamer S. Aboushanab, Ibrahim S. Elsubai, Meshari S. Alqaed, Mohammad Hamza, Dalal S. Al-Dossari, Sara O. Salem & Naseem A. Qureshi·Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research·2017
Background: Cupping is a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) technique that has been widely used by healthcare professionals and the people since ancient times. Objective: This study assessed controversial beliefs and conceptions concerning cupping (Al-Hijamah) among hea...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/35536