Clinical trials: Serious Medical Errors
Heart Failure
Coordinated Assessment of Notifications of Trials Containing Overt Published Errors
Clinical research, like all science, is self-correcting, with errors detected by the scientific community and communicated to the publishing journals, which then relay the information (and its resolution) to its readers.
- Trial name
- NCT01901523
- Testing
- Reporting of discrepancy to journal
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Imperial College London
Medication Errors
Serious Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Evaluation of Prevention Strategies
The purpose of this study is to determine how effective ward-based clinical pharmacists and computerized physician order entry systems are in reducing serious medication errors in pediatric inpatients.
- Trial name
- NCT00153205
- Testing
- computerized physician order entry
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Serious Medical Errors, Resident Sign-out
IIPE-PRIS Accelerating Safe Signouts
Because communication and handoff failures are a root cause of two-thirds of "sentinel events"- serious, often fatal preventable adverse events in hospitals improving handoffs has been identified by AHRQ and the Joint Commission…
- Trial name
- I-PASS (NCT02403466)
- Testing
- Resident Handoff Bundle
- Where
- 10 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 875 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital