For Each of the Following Medication-Related Errors, Select the Patient

question 37

Multiple Choice

For each of the following medication-related errors, select the patient "right" that was violated (select a, b, c, d, or e for each) . Use pharmacology text references if needed. After your selection, discuss the clinical implications and preventive measures you will take in your practice to avoid such errors.

-Ordered: Percocet 1 tablet q4h prn pain for a patient allergic to aspirin.
Given: Percodan 1 tablet.

• A) Right patient
• B) Right drug
• C) Right time
• D) Right dose
• E) Right route

Grasp the significance of random assignment in experimental research and its role in establishing causation.

Understand the concept of external validity and the factors that influence it.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of online experiments and the measures to mitigate biases.

Understand the importance and role of a hypothesis in experimental design.

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Experiment

An experimental design that groups participants into blocks based on certain characteristics before randomly assigning them to treatments, improving the experiment's accuracy by reducing variance.

Ordinal

Pertains to a categorical ranking where the order among values is significant but not the distance between them.

Interval

A range between two numbers or points, often used to specify the precision of an estimate or the coverage of a dataset.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

The Kruskal-Wallis Test is a non-parametric statistical test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.