Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice

The responsibility of clinical pharmacists for the safety of medication use in hospitalized children: A Middle Eastern experience

Khatereh Jafarian; Zahra Allameh; Mehrdad Memarzadeh Memarzadeh; Ali Saffaei; Payam Peymani; Ali Mohammad Sabzghabaee

Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2019, , Pages 83-91

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We aimed to detect and report the frequency of occurrence of drug-related problems (DRPs) in a Middle Eastern University Children's Hospital (Isfahan, Iran) and classify them ... Read More

Causes of medication errors in intensive care units from the perspective of healthcare professionals

Sedigheh Farzi; Alireza Irajpour; Mahmoud Saghaei; Hamid Ravaghi

Volume 6, Issue 3 , July 2017, , Pages 158-165

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This study was conducted to explore and to describe the causes of medication errors in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) from the perspective of physicians, nurses, and clinical pharmacists. Methods: The ... Read More

Medication errors in patients with enteral feeding tubes in the intensive care unit

Seyed Mojtaba Sohrevardi; Mohammad Hossein Jarahzadeh; Ehsan Mirzaei; Mahtabalsadat Mirjalili; Arefeh Dehghani Tafti; Behrooz Heydari

Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 100-105

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Most patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) have problems in using oral medication or ingesting solid forms of drugs. Selecting the most suitable dosage form in such patients ... Read More

Frequency and types of the medication errors in an academic emergency department in Iran: The emergent need for clinical pharmacy services in emergency departments

. Alireza Zeraatchi; . Mohammad‑Taghi Talebian; . Amir Nejati; . Simin Dashti‑Khavidaki

Volume 2, Issue 3 , July 2013, , Pages 118-122

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Objective: Emergency departments (EDs) are characterized by simultaneous care of multiple patients with various medical conditions. Due to a large number of patients with complex ... Read More Objective: Emergency departments (EDs) are characterized by simultaneous care of multiple patients with various medical conditions. Due to a large number of patients with complex diseases, speed and complexity of medication use, working in under‑staffing and crowded environment, medication errors are commonly perpetrated by emergency care providers. This study was designed to evaluate the incidence of medication errors among patients attending to an ED in a teaching hospital in Iran.Methods: In this cross‑sectional study, a total of 500 patients attending to ED were randomly assessed for incidence and types of medication errors. Some factors related to medication errors such as working shift, weekdays and schedule of the educational program of trainee were also evaluated.Findings: Nearly, 22% of patients experienced at least one medication error. The rate of medication errors were 0.41 errors per patient and 0.16 errors per ordered medication. The frequency of medication errors was higher in men, middle age patients, first weekdays, night‑time work schedules and the first semester of educational year of new junior emergency medicine residents. More than 60% of errors were prescription errors by physicians and the remaining were transcription or administration errors by nurses. More than 35% of the prescribing errors happened during the selection of drug dose and frequency. The most common medication errors by nurses during the administration were omission error (16.2%) followed by unauthorized drug (6.4%). Most of the medication errors happened for anticoagulants and thrombolytics (41.2%) followed by antimicrobial agents (37.7%) and insulin (7.4%).Conclusion: In this study, at least one‑fifth of the patients attending to ED experienced medication errors resulting from multiple factors. More common prescription errors happened during ordering drug dose and frequency. More common administration errors included dug omission or unauthorized drug.

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Keywords = medication errors

The responsibility of clinical pharmacists for the safety of medication use in hospitalized children: A Middle Eastern experience

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Causes of medication errors in intensive care units from the perspective of healthcare professionals

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Medication errors in patients with enteral feeding tubes in the intensive care unit

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Frequency and types of the medication errors in an academic emergency department in Iran: The emergent need for clinical pharmacy services in emergency departments

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