PHARM120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Pharmacists Association, Evidence-Based Practice, Hospital Pharmacy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Pharmacy
• Course: PHARM120
• Professor: Dontknow

Document Summary

Medication error any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer, this may be related to. Professional practice, products, procedures, packaging, labelling, etc. Medication errors are preventable, these include errors of omission. Failure to counsel or educate a patient on how to use medication. Medication errors may or may not cause adverse events. Not all adverse events are due to medication error. 24% of preventable adverse events are due to medication errors. 1 in 19 preventable hospital patients will get the wrong medication or wrong dose. Up to 1. 5 million preventable adverse events in the us annually. One medication error per day in the hospital. Total cost of preventable drug related hospitalization 2. 6 billion per year. Errors occur during prescribing, preparing, storage, dispensing, administration or monitoring. Most common prescribing error wrong dose or patient allergy.