ENHANCING PATIENT SAFETYA PRESCRIPTION AUDIT IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Abstract

Prescription audits are an important aspect of patient safety practice. Medication errors are a common occurrence and need constant monitoring and audit for ensuring right medicine to right patient ,at right time with right dose and right administration and documentation. Medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm in process of prescribing, order communication, product labelling, packaging, and nomenclature, compounding, dispensing, distribution, administration, education, monitoring, and use Objective- To audit the IPD prescriptions of the different wards and critical care areas for quality improvement in medication management A retrospective random sampling of 506 IPD les of June 2022 -July 2022 including Methodology- sample from wards and .ICU were included and team of trained auditors audited them according to a predened checklist . The ndings were subject to analysis and reports generated The 23 point checklist based audit nding Results- s revealed good compliance in documentation of the various audit points. Improvement was needed in capital letters use and writing of date and time along with authentication details .More detailed audits and in depth analysis is needed for further improvement The Conclusionaudit showed good compliance in documentation. There is need for focus audits for high risk drugs and doses of high alert medicines along side this audit