Table 1 Breakdown of MERP categories for 3,861 PSE reports. Each report could be grouped into zero, one, or multiple categories.
From: A text mining approach to categorize patient safety event reports by medication error type
MERP categories | Definition | Number of reports |
|---|---|---|
Coding taxonomy and definitions21 | ||
Wrong drug | Ordered, dispensed, or administered a medication different from what was intended or gave a drug when no drug was intended | 1982 |
Wrong time | Administration outside a predefined time interval from its scheduled administration time, as defined by each health care facility | 1677 |
Wrong strength or concentration | Incorrect medication strength/concentration was ordered, dispensed, or administered | 1453 |
Wrong dosage form or technique or route | Combined from wrong dosage form, wrong technique, and wrong route of administration | 1107 |
Improper dose/dose omission | Failure to order, dispense, or administer a dose as intended. Includes an overdose, underdose, extradose, or duplicate therapy due in some part to an incorrect duration, strength/concentration, dosage form, rate, time, or frequency | 1102 |
Wrong rate | Medication administered too fast or slow | 323 |
Wrong patient | Medication was ordered, dispensed, or administered to patient different from what was intended | 152 |
Monitoring error | Drug-drug interactions or drug allergy issues that were not identified | 144 |
