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Medication Error

The document discusses medication errors, including their definition, types, causes, and methods of prevention. It describes different types of medication errors like prescribing errors, omission errors, monitoring errors, and unauthorized drug errors. It also discusses reasons for errors and ways to prevent errors such as education/training, standardized forms, computerization, and multiple check systems.

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Medication Error

The document discusses medication errors, including their definition, types, causes, and methods of prevention. It describes different types of medication errors like prescribing errors, omission errors, monitoring errors, and unauthorized drug errors. It also discusses reasons for errors and ways to prevent errors such as education/training, standardized forms, computerization, and multiple check systems.

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Mediction Error

Introduction
Defination 01
Types of Medication Error 02
TABLE OF
CONTENTS Preventing Medication
Error 03
Conclusions 04
Team

01 02 03
Sohanur rahman Shanto Tabassum Rajoana Tumpa Farhan Islam Durjoy
Id : 201 051 032 Id: 201 052 032 Id: 201 053 032

04 05
Nadia sultana tamim Farzana akter othi
Id: 201 057 032 Id : 201 058 032
Introduction
Medication errors, broadly defined as
any error in the prescribing,
dispensing, or administration of a
drug, irrespective of whether such
errors lead to adverse consequences
or not, are the single most preventable
cause of patient Harm.
02
How do a medication
error happen
Reasons of Medication Errors

Communication Patient Related


01 Problems 02 Issues

Organizational
Inadequate
03 Information Flow
Transfer of Human Problems
04 knowledge 05
classification
Types of Medication Error
Wrong dose forms
Prescribing Error
errors

Ommision Errors Monitoring errors

Wrong administration
Wrong time errors techniques

Unauthorized Improper drug


drug errors errors
Prescribing error
Incorrect drug Errors in quantity Prescribing
selection and indications contraindicated drugs
Medication Errors
Unauthorized
Omission Errors Monitoring error Wrong time error drug error

The failure to Failure to review Dispensing or


Administration of
administer an a prescribed administration to
medication outside
ordered dose to a regimen for the patient of
a predefined time
patient before the appropriateness medication not
interval from its
next scheduled dose and detection of authorized by a
scheduled
or failure to prescribe problems legitimate
administration time
a drug product that is prescriber.
indicated for the
patient.
Improper drug Wrong doses forms Wrong administration techniques
Drug product incorrectly f administration to the patient Wrong route of
ormulated or manipulated of a drug product in a administration of the
before dispensing or different dosage form than correct drug.ou can talk a
administration. that ordered by the prescribe bit about this person
Prevention
Failure mode & effect Education and training
analysis
Standardized order
Legal requirements
forms

Computerization &
Multiple check system
automation
Conclusions
We all make errors from time to time. There
are many sources of medication errors and
different ways of avoiding them. However, we
must start by being aware that error is
possible and take steps to minimize the risks.
The essential components of this are
monitoring for and identifying errors,
reporting them in a blame-free environment,
analysis of their root causes,57 changing
procedures according to the lessons learnt
and further monitoring.
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