Commentary on Armitage G (2005) Drug errors, qualitative research and some reflections on ethics. Journal of Clinical Nursing 14, 869-875.

摘要

There are many professionals involved in the process of medication including physicians, pharmacists and nurses. They each have their own roles in prescribing, dispensing and administering medication. Tasks related to medication are amongst the most frequent practices in health care organizations, and the consequences of medication error are well known. Thus, research on medication error is increasing.The study of methodological and ethical issues related to qualitative methods is not a novelty in the literature (Mays & Pope 1995, Mangione-Smith et al. 2002, Mulhall 2003). Even the article of Armitage (2005) on drug errors within the National Health System in the UK using observational method points out the ethical issues surrounding it.