Is The Incidence of Medication Administration Errors in A Tertiary Care Hospital a Secret Factor in our Health-Care System?

Abstract

Medication Error (ME) are one of the biggest problems in healthcare that occur often Hospitalized. MEs can aid in examining major morbidity or mortality as well as significantly lowering the expenses of medical care for patients and the healthcare system.The goal of the current study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of such drug administration mistakes as well as to identify and evaluate the MAEs that occurred in patients admitted to the tertiary care hospital.The current cross-sectional study was carried out in the tertiary care hospital over the period of 4 months, from 1st May 2022 to 31st August 2022. Data was collected by Clinical Pharmacist, who are highly trained to spot all categories of medication related errors. Each and every patient’s medication chart as well as admission chart was thoroughly analyzed, evaluated and reviewed to figure out any kind of suspected administration error as well as medication error. In this study it has been observed that Delay in administration, Wrong drug administration and failure to intercept drug interaction and contradiction has been observed in tertiary care hospital which need to be improvised and proper guidelines should be followed so that in future further such incident may not repeat and provide safety and efficacy to the patient.