Current Issue : October-December Volume : 2013 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 2 Articles
Medication misadventure refers to any iatrogenic hazard associated with medications. It may or may not cause an injury to a patient. In addition, Studies show that medication misadventures in children are usually fatal. Pharmacists have the responsibility of ensuring the safe and effective use of medications. The main objective of this study is to determine the medication misadventures in paediatrics and role of clinical pharmacist in preventing these. All the Paediatrics Patients of either sex 12 or below 12 years who visited I.P & O.P departments, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, kadapa were eligible for participating in our study between August 2012 and January 2013. This is a prospective observational, cross sectional study that determined the medication misadventures. All documented medication orders monitored for any medication misadventures. Impact of clinical pharmacist was analysed by using the chi -square test through graph-pad prism. Psychology of medication errors, strategies to reduce medication errors, incidence and nature of dosing errors are the main outcome measures. Result show that medication misadventures in children were common. The importance of the clinical pharmacist in preventing medication misadventures is well established. In this paper, we found that efficient clinical pharmacist available to health care professionals in providing awareness regarding drugs, current prescribing guidelines and thus improving the quality and safety of care provided....
Health systems and health professionals help the patients to stay healthy. The goal of drug therapy is the achievement of defined therapeutic outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life. Medication administration errors documented in the literature from last thirty years. Errors resulting in patient injury and death are occurring in hospitals at significantly high. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, mission public attention to the important issue of patient safety. According to these, 44,000-98,000 Americans may die annually because of medical mistakes made by health care professionals and associated with a cost of $17 to $29 billion (ranks eighth-leading cause of death in the United States). The safety net should work with all professionals and in all environments and may consist of multiple checks by individuals of other people's work, computer systems that screen for errors, barcode scanning systems, quality assurance measures and extra-organizational measures (e.g., to minimize ordering medications from companies with similar packaging)....
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