Adherence Assessment of Medication Errors Reporting System at the Public Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Yousef Ahmed Alomi,Fatimah Ali Albusalih,Nisreen Al-Shubaar,Nadia Lubad

doi:10.5530/ijpcs.2019.8.18

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International Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Sciences,2019,8,2,105-109.DOI:10.5530/ijpcs.2019.8.18Published:June 2019Type:Research ArticleAuthors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Nisreen Al-Shubaar, Nadia Lubad, and Fatimah Ali Albusalih Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi1,* , Nisreen Al-Shubaar2, Nadia Lubad2, Fatimah Ali Albusalih3 1The Former General Manager of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Former Head, National Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Former Head, Pharmacy R and D Administration, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 2King Salman Hospital, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 3College of Clinical Pharmacy, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (University of Dammam) Dammam, SAUDI ARABIA. Abstract:Objective: Medication errors have noteworthy implications in the field of patient safety. Error detection through a dynamic supervision and an efficient error reporting system unveils medication errors and boosts safe practices. The overall goal of this study is to explore the pharmacist’s adherence to medication errors reporting system in adults and pediatrics at the public hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods: This article describes 9 months retrospective cohort study in year of 2015. A retrospective study was conducted on all inpatients at a 300-bed hospital where all medication procedures in each ward were monitored by a clinical pharmacist. The study was conducted at the Public Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The hospital had medication safety officer with medication safety committee. The program led by trained pharmacist and delivered basic medication safety education programs to all health professional. The medication error report consisted of patient demographic information, qualification of committing mistakes, time of errors occurs, type of medication errors, reasons for medication errors, medications stages involved and errors outcome. Results: The total number of reports were 805. The most common adherence documentation of error involving medications were cost related information (100%), error related information with an average (90.59%), patient related information (50.37%) and drug related information (49.39%). While the action related information (0.57%) was harmless. The most common completed of error related information were causes of medication errors 775 (96.3%) and type of medication errors 770 (95.6%) followed by outcome of medication errors 764 (94.9%) and medication process stages involved 711 (88.3%). While the patient’s demographic information completed only (50%) in reports. Conclusion: Despite the medication error reporting is consider new at the public hospital, the number of reporting was high. The system needs more determination to follow completeness medication errors reporting system and that by development of an electronic reporting system, program awareness and positive documentation system feedback changes in pharmacy practice. Keywords:Adherence, Medication errors, Ministry of Health, Public, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaView:PDF (323.67 KB) PDFClick here to download the PDF file. Images Medication Error Reports Compliance

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Advance of quality of life and good clinical consequences regarding health are the main aims of prescribing medication and administration
Medications safety program at the Public Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia started after one year of established national medication safety program
The form consisted of five parts included patient, error, recommendations to prevent error, drug and cost avoidance of prevention errors related information

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Advance of quality of life and good clinical consequences regarding health are the main aims of prescribing medication and administration. Et al.: Medication Errors Reporting System Adherence in Saudi Arabia examinations focused on the issue and distinguished the causes, for example, inadequately organized prescription or applying transcribed method.[2,3,4] Nature, incidence and prevalence of prescribing errors for conceded patients were explored.[5] The causes and factors related to these errors were described.[6] Medicine Errors (MEs) are under-detailed in all nations,[7] especially in emerging nations. MEs show a general issue and can cause genuine results for patients, mainly those with intense complex medical conditions. [8] The National Patient Safety Agency revealed that MEs in all care settings in the United Kingdom (UK) occurred in each phase of the prescription treatment process, with 16% prescribing errors, 18% dispensing errors and 50% errors in the administration process.[9] MEs show a general issue and can cause genuine results for patients, mainly those with intense complex medical conditions. [8] The National Patient Safety Agency revealed that MEs in all care settings in the United Kingdom (UK) occurred in each phase of the prescription treatment process, with 16% prescribing errors, 18% dispensing errors and 50% errors in the administration process.[9]

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