Standardized Orders for Titrating Vasopressors: Do Efforts to Improve Safety Slow Delivery of Care?

摘要

Medication errors are common and cause patient harm in approximately 5% of hospitalized patients. Titratable continuous infusions are particularly prone to error, and the consequences of these errors tend to be more severe than for other medication errors. Lack of titration limits or failure to adhere to limits are the most frequent type of error, and the subsequent overdosing likely contributes to the higher severity of harm from infusion errors.