Effect of interventions on patient safety incident outcomes
| Intervention | Patient safety incident outcomes | ||
| Favours intervention | No difference | Favours control | |
| Informing the management plan | |||
| Medication Record Card/bring all meds/visit by pharmacist9 | NR | NR | NR |
| Reminder to bring meds/verification of med list22 | NR | NR | NR |
| Monitoring and ensuring safe delivery of treatment by self | |||
| Self-management of anticoagulation10 | Reduction in death; reduction in thromboembolic events | Major bleeding | NR |
| Medication instruction at normal or slow place13 | NR | NR | NR |
| ‘Easy’ read information leaflet14 | Decrease in medication errors | NR | NR |
| Medication dose counselling15 | NR | NR | NR |
| Dosing instruction/syringe with dose marked16 | NR | NR | NR |
| Nurse intervention to promote self-administration of medication in hospital18 | Decrease in medication errors | NR | NR |
| Medication tips brochure/wallet card19 | NR | NR | NR |
| Patient package insert21 | Increase in patient reporting of adverse drug reactions | NR | NR |
| Monitoring and ensuring safe delivery of treatment by health professional | |||
| List of current medication/one page medication consumer guide23 | NR | Adverse drug events; close-call drug errors | NR |
| Informing the management plan/monitoring and ensuring safe delivery of treatment | |||
| Individualised teaching plan by nurse12 | Reduction in medication errors | NR | NR |
| Personal education plan via interactive computer17 | NR | NR | NR |
| Pharmacist counselling20 | Reduction in preventable adverse drug events; reduction in total adverse drug events | NR | NR |
| Informing the management plan/making systems safer | |||
| Patient-initiated reporting system11 | NR | Adverse clinical event reporting | NR |
Informing the management plan: helping to ensure that appropriate treatment plan is formulated; Making systems safer: helping ensure that current and future healthcare systems are safe; Monitoring and ensuring safe delivery of treatment: helping to ensure the management plan is correctly implemented; NR, none reported; Patient safety outcomes: for example, adverse incidents, adverse events, near misses, medication error rates, infection rates.