Medication errors and their classifications

What is it about?

Medication errors (MEs) affect severely ill health or death and have a substantial financial effect on patients and healthcare organizations. The current study aims to detect incidences and classify MEs and increase patient safety medication at Super Specialty Hospital in Kolkata. Materials and Methods. Prospective observational studies of patient prescriptions, transcription, indenting, dispensing, and administration were followed up daily to identify medication errors in 400+ beds across each admitted inpatient department (IPD) patient files from June 2019 to July 2019 at a Super Specialty Hospital, Kolkata.

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Why is it important?

This study revealed that MEs occur from the common mistake of illegible handwriting, which causes many problems while transcribing and indenting medicine by chemists and nurses while cross-checking the patient file documentation with a medical card. Further studies are needed to determine factors governing MEs low reporting.