Questionnaire of the Section Perioperative Intensive Care of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) on Standardized Drug Labelling

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drug Labelling

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01232088

Standardized Drug Labelling

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medication errors are common in intensive care (Valentin A et al., BMJ. 2009;338). Standardized color coded labels for user applied syringes enjoy strong support from many health professionals, thinking that this might increase patient safety. Whether this is true or not warrants further research.

Enrollment: 482 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Members of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

Trial design

482 participants in 1 patient group

Data collection group: ICU physicians

Description:

Online survey for ICU physicians (members of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)).