Medical Error In Health Care

Introduction: From the past ,Health care workers wear facing a very serious and sensitive problem while treating patient which is Medications Errors. Patient safety is characterized as opportunity from incidental harm because of medical care, or absence of medicinal blunders, or absence of abuse in administrations. Medical error is: "a failure in the therapeutic process that can possibly lead to harm to the patient"(1). It occurs when a health care provider selects improper technique in care or improperly executes an proper strategy of care. Medical errors can happen anywhere in the health care system: In hospitals, clinics, operations rooms, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes. Errors can happen
Errors can occur during the different stages of drug delivery process (prescribing error, transcribing error, dispensing error, administering error and monitoring error. Each stage, is susceptible to error . .In prescribing Error, which is the error that can happen from the written medication order.Such as wrong dose, for instance, the patient who is taking chemotherapy, the dosage is computed taking into accounted an old weight so the dosage is too low, so is calculated based on an old weight , and the error happen when Carboplatin dosage is substituted for cisplatin dose in the medicine, bringing an extreme poisonous quality. Other types of prescribing errors include(wrong patient ,wrong time, wrong drug, wrong frequency and wrong rout like Intravenous vincristine is prescribed for intrathecal administration. Also there is illegible or unclear written order. For example, , a patient who is taking chemotherapy is endorsed drugs on d 1–8. This is inaccurately deciphered as implying that the medications ought to be given every day through d 1–8. The expected significance was that the medications are managed on d 1 and d .the expected significance was that the medications are managed on d 1 and
Re-writing doses, frequencies, routes or times incorrectly .Third ,Dispensing error .its an error originated from the point that the drug was prepared in the pharmacy. The errors here include : Incorrect preparation of the drug or infusion solution, or Dispense an expired drug, or Incorrect written information on drug label. Fourth, Administering Error, which is an error that occur during the administration process of medication to the patient. Fifth, monitoring errors, which is happen from the lack of necessary monitoring