Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad

Background: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at risk of medication errors. Aim: To determine the frequency of medication errors (ME) among patients admitted to an internal medicine service of a high complexity hospital. Material and Methods: A prosp...

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Autores principales:	Smith M,Ann-Loren, Ruiz A,Inés, Jirón A,Marcela
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2014
Materias:	Medication errors Pharmaceutical preparations Quality control Safety
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720140001000072014-08-18Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidadSmith M,Ann-LorenRuiz A,InésJirón A,Marcela Medication errors Pharmaceutical preparations Quality control Safety Background: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at risk of medication errors. Aim: To determine the frequency of medication errors (ME) among patients admitted to an internal medicine service of a high complexity hospital. Material and Methods: A prospective observational study conducted in 225 patients admitted to an internal medicine service. Each stage of drug utilization system (prescription, transcription, dispensing, preparation and administration) was directly observed by trained pharmacists not related to hospital staff during three months. ME were described and categorized according to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. In each stage of medication use, the frequency of ME and their characteristics were determined. Results: A total of 454 drugs were prescribed to the studied patients. In 138 (30,4%) indications, at least one ME occurred, involving 67 (29,8%) patients. Twenty four percent of detected ME occurred during administration, mainly due to wrong time schedules. Anticoagulants were the therapeutic group with the highest occurrence of ME. Conclusions: At least one ME occurred in approximately one third of patients studied, especially during the administration stage. These errors could affect the medication safety and avoid achieving therapeutic goals. Strategies to improve the quality and safe use of medications can be implemented using this information.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.142 n.1 20142014-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872014000100007es10.4067/S0034-98872014000100007
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language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Medication errors Pharmaceutical preparations Quality control Safety
spellingShingle	Medication errors Pharmaceutical preparations Quality control Safety Smith M,Ann-Loren Ruiz A,Inés Jirón A,Marcela Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
description	Background: Patients admitted to internal medicine services receive multiple drugs and thus are at risk of medication errors. Aim: To determine the frequency of medication errors (ME) among patients admitted to an internal medicine service of a high complexity hospital. Material and Methods: A prospective observational study conducted in 225 patients admitted to an internal medicine service. Each stage of drug utilization system (prescription, transcription, dispensing, preparation and administration) was directly observed by trained pharmacists not related to hospital staff during three months. ME were described and categorized according to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. In each stage of medication use, the frequency of ME and their characteristics were determined. Results: A total of 454 drugs were prescribed to the studied patients. In 138 (30,4%) indications, at least one ME occurred, involving 67 (29,8%) patients. Twenty four percent of detected ME occurred during administration, mainly due to wrong time schedules. Anticoagulants were the therapeutic group with the highest occurrence of ME. Conclusions: At least one ME occurred in approximately one third of patients studied, especially during the administration stage. These errors could affect the medication safety and avoid achieving therapeutic goals. Strategies to improve the quality and safe use of medications can be implemented using this information.
author	Smith M,Ann-Loren Ruiz A,Inés Jirón A,Marcela
author_facet	Smith M,Ann-Loren Ruiz A,Inés Jirón A,Marcela
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title	Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
title_short	Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
title_full	Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
title_fullStr	Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
title_full_unstemmed	Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
title_sort	errores de medicación en el servicio de medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2014
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Errores de medicación en el Servicio de Medicina de un hospital de alta complejidad

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