Prevention of adverse events in the administration of drugs

Abstract

Incorrect use of drugs may cause adverse events with serious consequences for patients. Adverse event (Adverse events) refers to an event related to the care process and which involves an injury to the patient, unintended and undesirable. Errors in drug therapy (also called error of therapy) are predictable events that may cause or lead to the inappropriate use of the drug or a threat to hospitalized patients, which may occur during the process of managing the drug for prevention and therefore should be considered by the whole management system of healthcare. These events, predictable and avoidable must be differentiated from the adverse drug reactions (ADR-Adverse Drug Reaction), linked to the drug itself and that are detected and evaluated by pharmacovigilance. The causes of errors in therapy are multifactorial and involve different health professionals. Basically 5 categories of error are recognized . • Error limitation • Clerical error / interpretation, • Error processing; • Error distribution • Administration error