Role of drug information centre in detecting medication errors in a tertiary care hospital, central region, Saudi Arabia.
J Pak Med Assoc
; 73(4): 755-758, 2023 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To identify the incidence of medication error in a tertiary care hospital and to document the role of drug information centre to prevent such errors.METHODS:
The retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and comprised review of secondary data collected from the Drug Information Centre from March 2013 to February 2016. The errors were categorised as under-prescribing, dispensing, administrating and transcription, while the received inquiries were classified according to the inquirer; physicians, pharmacists and nurses. The score was given according to the Grade of Severity scale. Data was analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 20. Armonk, NY IBM Corp. Categorical variables were presented as frequency and percentage.RESULTS:
Among the 2800 drug-related inquiries received, 238(8.5%) medication errors were detected. The inquirers of these queries included 108(45.4%) nurses. Administration errors were the highest 113(47.5%), while the least were transcription errors 31(13%). Majority of errors were committed by nurses 113(47.5%). Grade 2 errors were the most common 86(36.10%), while grade 4 life-threatening errors were minimal 2(0.8%). There were significant differences in the number of received questions based on the specialty (pË0.05), staff having committed the error (pË0.01) and the type of errors detected (pË0.01).CONCLUSIONS:
The prevalence of medication errors committed by healthcare providers was high.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Errores de Medicación
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Pak Med Assoc
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Arabia Saudita