Medication prescribing errors in the medical intensive care unit of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes

Workineh Shibeshi²  Addisu Melkie³  Oumer Sada¹ 

[1] Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia;Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

关键词: Intensive care unit;    Prescribing error;    Medication error;   

Others  :  1230133
DOI  :  10.1186/s13104-015-1435-y

 received in 2015-05-04, accepted in 2015-09-10,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Medication errors (MEs) are important problems in all hospitalized populations, especially in intensive care unit (ICU). Little is known about the prevalence of medication prescribing errors in the ICU of hospitals in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to assess medication prescribing errors in the ICU of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital using retrospective cross-sectional analysis of patient cards and medication charts.

Results

About 220 patient charts were reviewed with a total of 1311 patient-days, and 882 prescription episodes. 359 MEs were detected; with prevalence of 40 per 100 orders. Common prescribing errors were omission errors 154 (42.89 %), 101 (28.13 %) wrong combination, 48 (13.37 %) wrong abbreviation, 30 (8.36 %) wrong dose, wrong frequency 18 (5.01 %) and wrong indications 8 (2.23 %).

Conclusions

The present study shows that medication errors are common in medical ICU of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital. These results suggest future targets of prevention strategies to reduce the rate of medication error.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Sada et al.

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