• Journal of critical care · Oct 2019

    Observational Study

    Moral distress in intensive care unit personnel is not consistently associated with adverse medication events and other adverse events.

    • Peter Dodek, Monica Norena, Najib Ayas, Vinay Dhingra, Glen Brown, and Hubert Wong.
    • Center for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: peter.dodek@ubc.ca.
    • J Crit Care. 2019 Oct 1; 53: 258-263.

    PurposeTo examine the association between moral distress in ICU personnel, and medication errors and adverse events, and other adverse events.Materials And MethodsIn 13 ICUs, we measured moral distress once in all ICU staff, and incidence of five explicity-defined adverse safety events over 2 years. In 10 of the ICUs, pharmacists tabulated medication errors and adverse events during 1 day in the 2-year period. Average moral distress scores for each professional group were correlated with each safety measure.ResultsIn the pharmacy study, there were almost no significant correlations between moral distress and measures of medication safety. However, higher moral distress in nurses was associated with more interceptions of near misses per administration error (r = 0.68, p = 0.04), and higher moral distress in physicians was associated with more incorrect measurements for medication monitoring per recommended action for monitoring (r = 0.68, p = 0.03). For the other adverse events, the only significant association was a positive association between moral distress in physicians and bleeding while on anticoagulants (OR: 1.1; 95% CI: 1.0-1.3).ConclusionMoral distress in ICU personnel is generally not associated with medication errors or adverse events, or other adverse events, but it may be associated with both hyper-vigilance and distraction.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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