CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dosage Form, Electrical Contacts, Active Ingredient
3 May 2020
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Hospital pharmacy practice: checking order for appropriateness, medication storage bins. Interacting with colleagues: pharmacy residents rounding with medical residents. In the hospital setting, pharmacist have more direct contact with other members of the healthcare team. Medication dispensing errors: probably about 1-2% of prescriptions. In the curriculum, you will hear much about patient safety. 1/13 hospitalizations are due to adverse drug events- 1/3 are preventable. Flaws in the dispensing process: mistakes from knowledge deficits, performance deficits (slips) from distraction/inattentiveness, medication mix-ups | video - abc news (warning: this is not a good news story, canadian leader: neil mackinnon http://www. ctvnews. ca/new-study-pinpoints- prescription-error-problems-1. 382929. It is very important to recognize that we are trying to move away from a culture of. Shame and blame toward one of being able to view errors from a systems perspective. That said, you can see from the media coverage that this is a very controversial issue. Not reading labels (#1 reason for drug errors)
