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CLINICAL PHARMACIST'S PART IN DETERMINING AND ADJUSTING THE CAUSES OF MEDICATION ERRORS

S.K. Godasu, D.Varun , T.Naga Aparna , Kyatham Hemanth , Jaffer Sadik Mohammed

Medication error is an essential variable to determine patient safety services, so it is crucial to realize the weak points of health care members regarding medication error and provide an educational program to resolve them. Medication error can occur at any phase of medication use cycle from prescribing, dispensing, and administration of a drug to the patient. It increases morbidity and mortality of the population along with increase in the cost of the treatment. Further, it also affects patient’s confidence in medical care. Identification and resolving the DRPs in the prescriptions is the core activity in pharmaceutical care. A total of 510 patients were followed, out of which 390 patients were intervened for having one or more DRPs. Out of 390 patients, 600 DRPs were identified by clinical pharmacist.The demographic reports of the present study showed higher incidence of medication errors in male patients ranges from 31-40 years 92 (30.2%) of age followed by 41-50 years 74 (24.3%), 51-60 years 56 (18.4%) and in female patient age ranges . No errors in the study resulted in permanent harm to the patient or contributed to initial or prolonged hospitalization; however, interventions were performed to prevent patient harm if any that is likely due to severity of error. Contributing factors, which lead to medication errors, have to be identified in order to prevent the medication errors. Performance deficit found to be the largest contributing factor among all that lead to medication errors. Each health care system should encourage medication errors reporting and prevention so as to enhance patient quality of life. The role of a clinical pharmacist in this situation appears to be very important for confine to identification, documentation, reporting and intervention of medication errors. Key words: Clinical Pharmacist, Medication Errors, Tertiary Care Hospital

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