Hello Everyone :)
I hope this presentation will help us to:
Understand the system-based causes of medication errors.
Describe a model for a systems approach to error analysis.
Identify weaknesses or failures in key elements of the medication-use system.
Select effective risk-reduction strategies to prevent medication errors.
3. Medication Error Definition
Medication errors, broadly defined as any error in the
prescribing, dispensing, or administration of a drug,
Medical errors are often described as human errors in
healthcare
> Such events may be related to:
1) professional practice
2) health care products
3) Procedures and systems
4) product labeling, packaging, and nomenclature
5) dispensing
6) distribution
7) administration
8) education
9) monitoring
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4. Some reasons errors occur
verbal orders
poor communications within healthcare team
poor handwriting
improper drug selection
missing medication
drug interactions
availability of floor stock (no second check)
look alike / sound alike drugs
hectic work environment
lack of computer decision support
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6. Ordering/prescribing
inadequate knowledge about drug indications and contraindications
not considering individual patient factors such as allergies,
pregnancy, co-morbidities, other medications
wrong patient, wrong dose, wrong time, wrong drug, wrong route
inadequate communication (written, verbal)
documentation - illegible, incomplete, ambiguous
mathematical error when calculating dosage
incorrect data entry when using computerized prescribing e.g.
duplication, omission, wrong number
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8. Dispensing
inexperience
rushing
doing two things at once
interruptions
fatigue, boredom, being on “automatic pilot”
leading to failure to check and double-check
lack of checking and double checking habits
poor teamwork and/or communication between
colleagues
Too much phone calls
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14. Monitoring
lack of monitoring for side-effects
drug not ceased if not working or course
complete
drug ceased before course completed
drug levels not measured, or not followed up
on
communication failures
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15. What Can You Do To Decrease Medication
Errors?
Check and double check, if in doubt check it out, again!
Follow the 5 R’s: right patient, right drug, right dose, right time, right
route
Never assume, “pharmacy put the medication in the drawer so this must
be right”, pharmacy makes errors too.
Never assume, “the resident ordered this large dose so it must be right”,
Residents make errors too.
Know the correct mg/kg dose of medications you are administering.
Know why you are giving the medication, the expected action, and any
potential side effects.
DR:Beenish Iqbal Arain