Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.

Key Takeaways

• 1
  The French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (SFAR) and the French Society of Clinical Pharmacy (SFPC) partnered to develop professional practice recommendations for preventing medication errors [1].
• 2
  A panel of 19 French experts formulated clinical questions using the PICO model and conducted a 20-year bibliographic search aligned with PRISMA guidelines [1, 2].
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  Because few studies had sufficient power to directly measure medication error outcomes, the experts chose to publish Professional Practice Guidelines (PPG) rather than Formalized Expert Recommendations [2].
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  The guideline covers four domains: (1) Work environment and processes; (2) Human and organizational factors; (3) Post-hoc risk management; and (4) The problem of drug shortages [2].
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  The development process resulted in 29 recommendations evaluated via the GRADE grid method, achieving strong agreement across all items among the expert panel [2, 3].