Moral distress in intensive care unit personnel is not consistently associated with adverse medication events and other adverse events.
J Crit Care
; 53: 258-263, 2019 10.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To examine the association between moral distress in ICU personnel, and medication errors and adverse events, and other adverse events. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
In 13 ICUs, we measured moral distress once in all ICU staff, and incidence of five explicity-defined adverse safety events over 2â¯years. In 10 of the ICUs, pharmacists tabulated medication errors and adverse events during 1â¯day in the 2-year period. Average moral distress scores for each professional group were correlated with each safety measure.RESULTS:
In the pharmacy study, there were almost no significant correlations between moral distress and measures of medication safety. However, higher moral distress in nurses was associated with more interceptions of near misses per administration error (râ¯=â¯0.68, pâ¯=â¯0.04), and higher moral distress in physicians was associated with more incorrect measurements for medication monitoring per recommended action for monitoring (râ¯=â¯0.68, pâ¯=â¯0.03). For the other adverse events, the only significant association was a positive association between moral distress in physicians and bleeding while on anticoagulants (OR 1.1; 95% CI 1.0-1.3).CONCLUSION:
Moral distress in ICU personnel is generally not associated with medication errors or adverse events, or other adverse events, but it may be associated with both hyper-vigilance and distraction.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Personal de Salud
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Cuidados Críticos
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Estrés Laboral
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Errores de Medicación
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Principios Morales
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Crit Care
Asunto de la revista:
TERAPIA INTENSIVA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article