Medication Errors
Preliminary Literature Review Description of Problem
Medication errors are common in hospitals. The area with larger patient demand and patient with more complex cases are at higher risk for medication errors. The classification of medication errors is by prescription, omission, time, dose, inappropriate drugs, and disposal. Medication errors also cause emotional and financial losses to the hospitals, patients, teams, families, and societies. As the result, adverse reactions, permanent disabilities and death can occur. There are many ways which helps to prevent these errors Medication administration is very complex and error prone step by step process. There …show more content…
Proper training was given to the staff members who helped the scanning rates of LVP bags successful. The problem was discussed to the manufacturer of the drug and corrective measures were taken and the bag was redesigned by discontinuing one of the bar-code …show more content…
(Sakushima et al., 2015) conducted a retrospective analysis of electronically stored incident reports at the Hokkaido university hospital. The financial year was considered from April to March in a year, so the information from April 2003 to March 2012 was collected. The BCMA system was implemented in April 2008. Before and after the implementation of BCMA, the errors of wrong drug and wrong patient administration were compared in clinical settings. 2867 error reports were extracted which were with injection drugs. After implementation of the BCMA system, the wrong patient errors were decreased and the main reason of wrong drug medication errors was drug preparation. The study concluded that the BCMA system is effective in preventing wrong patient errors but not effective in preventing incorrect drug preparation. Since the study says about the effectiveness of BCMA in preventing medication errors, it will be suitable for the capstone project.
Seibert, H. H., Maddox, R. R., Flynn, E. A., & Williams, C. K. (2014). EFFECT of
Medication errors are common in hospitals. The area with larger patient demand and patient with more complex cases are at higher risk for medication errors. The classification of medication errors is by prescription, omission, time, dose, inappropriate drugs, and disposal. Medication errors also cause emotional and financial losses to the hospitals, patients, teams, families, and societies. As the result, adverse reactions, permanent disabilities and death can occur. There are many ways which helps to prevent these errors Medication administration is very complex and error prone step by step process. There …show more content…
Proper training was given to the staff members who helped the scanning rates of LVP bags successful. The problem was discussed to the manufacturer of the drug and corrective measures were taken and the bag was redesigned by discontinuing one of the bar-code …show more content…
(Sakushima et al., 2015) conducted a retrospective analysis of electronically stored incident reports at the Hokkaido university hospital. The financial year was considered from April to March in a year, so the information from April 2003 to March 2012 was collected. The BCMA system was implemented in April 2008. Before and after the implementation of BCMA, the errors of wrong drug and wrong patient administration were compared in clinical settings. 2867 error reports were extracted which were with injection drugs. After implementation of the BCMA system, the wrong patient errors were decreased and the main reason of wrong drug medication errors was drug preparation. The study concluded that the BCMA system is effective in preventing wrong patient errors but not effective in preventing incorrect drug preparation. Since the study says about the effectiveness of BCMA in preventing medication errors, it will be suitable for the capstone project.
Seibert, H. H., Maddox, R. R., Flynn, E. A., & Williams, C. K. (2014). EFFECT of