Effectiveness of a pharmacist-led quality improvement program to reduce medication errors during hospital discharge
Pharm. pract. (Granada, Internet)
; 17(3): 0-0, jul.-sept. 2019. tab, graf
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em Inglês
| IBECS
| ID: ibc-188117
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Patients requiring medications during discharge are at risk of discharge medication errors that potentially cause readmission due to medication-related events.Objective:
The objective of this study was to develop interventions to reduce percentage of patients with one or more medication errors during discharge.Methods:
A pharmacist-led quality improvement (QI) program over 6 months was conducted in medical wards at a tertiary public hospital. Percentage of patients discharge with one or more medication errors was reviewed in the pre-intervention and four main improvements were developed increase the ratio of pharmacist to patient, prioritize discharge prescription order within office hours, complete discharge medication reconciliation by ward pharmacist, set up a Centralized Discharge Medication Pre-packing Unit. Percentage of patients with one or more medication errors in both pre- and post-intervention phase were monitored using process control chart.Results:
With the implementation of the QI program, the percentage of patients with one or more medication errors during discharge that were corrected by pharmacists significantly increased from 77.6% to 95.9% (p<0.001). Percentage of patients with one or more clinically significant error was similar in both pre and post-QI with an average of 24.8%.Conclusions:
Increasing ratio of pharmacist to patient to complete discharge medication reconciliation during discharge significantly recorded a reduction in the percentage of patients with one or more medication errorsRESUMEN
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Base de dados:
IBECS
Assunto principal:
Assistência Farmacêutica
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Reconciliação de Medicamentos
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Sumários de Alta do Paciente Hospitalar
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Erros de Medicação
Limite:
Idoso
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Pharm. pract. (Granada, Internet)
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Ministry of Health/Malaysia
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Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital/Malaysia
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Universiti Sains Malaysia/Malaysia