Pharmacists’ perception on medication errors in intensive care unit
Introduction: Medication error is a global issue. A medication error is one of the medical errors that can result from mild to severe complications which may violate patient safety. A holistic approach is important to prevent medication error includes contributed factor, reporting system and trai...
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| Format: | Proceeding Paper |
| Language: | English English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/75759/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/75759/1/Poster%20UI.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/75759/19/75759%20Abstract.pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction: Medication error is a global issue. A medication error is one of the medical
errors that can result from mild to severe complications which may violate patient safety. A
holistic approach is important to prevent medication error includes contributed factor,
reporting system and training for staffs.
Objective: This research sought to determine the pharmacists' perception of medication
errors in the intensive care unit.
Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study involved 132 pharmacists from two hospitals
in state of Pahang, Malaysia. A self-administrated questionnaire was used to collect the data.
Statistical analysis of the data was carried out using SPSS and association between variables
was analyzed using one way ANOVA and multiple regression tests.
Results: The findings show that interruptions (x= 3.40) as the commonest cause of dispensing
errors perceived by pharmacists, followed by pharmacists fatigue at any cause (x= 3.20) and
pharmacist overwork (x= 3.17). Besides, 51% of participants practice dispensing less than 10
hours per week on average. 54% and 55% of participants believe the increase of risk of error
in dispensing and actual errors become more common in pharmacy practice respectively. The
results also showed that only level of education has a significant association with possible
factors in dispensing medication among the pharmacists at the hospital (P=0.000). Besides,
multiple regressions showed no significant relationship between both dependent variables.
Conclusion: Most of the pharmacist perceived those possible factors associated with
dispensing error. This study suggests that pharmacists should be well informed regarding
dispensing error in order to be more alert. Besides, future study should be more specific on
pharmacists who assigned to the in-patient department. |
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