Background: Opioids have narrow therapeutic windows, and errors in ordering or
administration can be fatal. The purpose of this study was to describe deaths involving …

Background: Opioid therapy in pediatrics may be particularly prone to error, yet the
incidence of opioid-related medication error and harm has not yet been described in the …

Background Errors may be more common and more likely to be harmful with opioids than
with other medications, but little research has been conducted on these errors. Methods The …

Dilaudid, is one of the world's most potent pain relievers. Although it was originally used for
intractable/chronic pain in clinical areas such as oncology when morphine could not be …

Objective To examine recent trends in and predictors of hydromorphone administration in
US emergency departments (EDs) compared with other opioids. Design Retrospective …

Background: Opioid analgesics are high-alert medications known to cause adverse drug
events. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the cause of opioid incidents …

The main aim of our work was to improve the safety of opioid use in our institution, an acute
general hospital with 620 beds. Initially, all reported opioid errors from 2001–2006 were …

Purpose Previous research and reporting has focused on the incidence and prevention of
medication errors in the hospital setting; however, no previous study has reported the …

Study objective We describe characteristics of patients with in–emergency department (ED)
opioid-related adverse drug events, medication errors, and harm resulting from medication …

Objective This is a descriptive study evaluating fatal iatrogenic and in-hospital medication
errors reported to United States poison centers. Methods A retrospective evaluation of the …