For What Types of Medication Errors Must an Incident Report

question 22

Multiple Choice

For what types of medication errors must an incident report be completed?

• A)for all medication errors
• B)only those witnessed by another health care practitioner
• C)only if there is an adverse reaction
• D)only those that are potentially dangerous

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Definitions:

Time Between Service

The period or interval between successive services rendered to customers or maintenance of equipment.

Service Factor

A multiplier used in operational and manufacturing settings to account for potential variability in demand or system overload capacity.

M/M/S

A model used in queueing theory representing a system with multiple servers where arrivals and service times are Poisson distributed and exponentially distributed, respectively.

Average Time

The mean value that represents the central tendency of a set of times, often used to summarize the typical amount of time required for a process.