PPT-Preventing Medication Errors and Omissions

Are Key to Keeping Kidney Patients Safe On average dialysis patients take 6 to 10 different medications each day Most dialysis patients report that they only sometimes discuss all of their medications with their doctor. Group 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9qBK3Infsw. History of Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA). In 1994, inspired by a nurse from . Colmeg-Oneil. Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) . Their system became the model for the BCMA. ERRORS AND OMISSIONS INSURANCE Spreading Medication Reconciliation Improvements. Hospital. Presenter. Month YYYY. Continuity is an Issue in Health Care. 10-67% of medication histories contain at least one error. 1. Incomplete medication histories at the time of admission have been cited as the cause of at least 27% of prescribing errors in hospital. Risk Reduction . How do you define a medication error?. “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or client harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, client, or consumer.”. Medication Reconciliation. A Systematic Process to Reduce Adverse Medication Events. Hospital. Presenter. Month YYYY. Continuity is an Issue in Health Care. 10-67% of medication histories contain at least one error. Medication Reconciliation: . Beyond Admission. Hospital. Presenter. Month YYYY. Continuity is an Issue in Health Care. 10-67% of medication histories contain at least one error. 1. Incomplete medication histories at the time of admission have been cited as the cause of at least 27% of prescribing errors in hospital. 2017. Course purpose. To provide an overview of medical errors in today’s health care system and to identify the incidence and causes of medical errors and the risk factors disposing to medical errors, and to provide strategies to prevent medical errors in the healthcare setting, including by patients.. . Youness R. Karodeh, B.Sc., Pharm.D., R.Ph. .. Assistant Dean, Associate Professor and . Director of Nontraditional Doctor of Pharmacy Program. Howard University, College of Pharmacy. Washington, D.C. By. Tsneem. . Tagelsir. . Khider. Medication safety. What is “medication error”?. Error . . Failure. of a planned action to be completed as intended. Medication error . Any . preventable event . 11/29/2017. 1. Introduction. Medication errors responsible for numerous adverse outcomes, including death. This results in high cost (emotional and financial). General framework for handling dispensing errors. H. Gwen Bartlett, BS Pharmacy, . PharmD. , . BCPS, BCCCP. Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice. Cardiology Specialty. Husson. University. Bangor, ME . 1. Disclosure. I. . have no relevant financial . Coroners Court. Neil Petrie. October 2018. Recent Coroners Case. Methotrexate. Chemotherapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis. Also used for some cancers. Also may be used in psoriasis. Extremely toxic. Philip A Routledge. James Coulson. All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre. Cardiff, Wales, UK. Case Study. A 44 year-old woman had a urinary tract infection and was prescribed the antibiotic nitrofurantoin for 10 days. Two weeks later she noticed numbness, pins and needles and tingling of the lower limbs up to mid-thigh. She was examined by a neurologist three months later, who stated that this was likely to have been a peripheral neuropathy related to the previous course of nitrofurantoin. She is referred to you (as a clinical pharmacologist) for advice.. Influenza, COVID, RSV, many other viruses. Masks and hand hygiene. Cleaning of surfaces with dilute bleach. Not coming to work when unwell and symptomatic. MRO = multi-resistant organisms. Same as MDR (multi-drug resistance).