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- Title
National Patient Safety Agency alert advising hospitals to switch to safer oral/enteral syringes.
- Authors
Odell, Mandy
- Abstract
The article reports that the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has released a Patient Safety Alert addressed to hospitals in Great Britain. The advisory details the hazards of wrong-route administration and recommends immediate actions to ensure that oral or enteral medications cannot be administered through an intravenous (IV) connection.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; GREAT Britain. National Patient Safety Agency; MEDICAL quality control; DRUG administration; INPATIENT care; HOSPITAL care
- Publication
Nursing in Critical Care, 2007, Vol 12, Issue 4, p213
- ISSN
1362-1017
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1478-5153.2007.00231_3.x