Simulation in Emergency Management and Engineering and Simulation in Health Care

Authors

James Anderson, Purdue University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the frequency, type and severity of medication errors in a large midwestern private teaching hospital; (2) to assess the impact of the use of pharmacists to detect and correct medication errors; (3) and to construct a computer simulation model to study the problem of medication errors in a hospital.

Keywords

medication errors, simulation model, pharmicists to detect errors

Date of this Version

January 1991