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Prevalence of Medication Errors across the world.
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UPLOADED BY-ADMIN, A. KUMAR, R. KACHHADIYA, R. BHATIA
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Medically inappropriate, ineffective and economically inefficient use of pharmaceuticals
is commonly observed in the health care system throughout the world, especially in the
developing countries. The medication error is not only clinically significant in many occasions;
it has serious economic consequences like extended hospital stays, additional treatment,
and malpractice litigation. It is suggested by some researcher that out of the total errors,
39% of errors are occurred at prescribing stage, 12% at transcribing stage, and 13% at
compounding stage and about 38% at administering stage.
A number of Healthcare agencies and Associations have come forwards to counteract
against this unnecessary problem. The main roadblock to these organizations’ step forward is
unavailability of quality data on prevalence of medication errors and Adverse Drug Reactions
(ADR). Most of the studies done in past two decades, those which have estimated the extent
and consequences of medical errors in health care provision, are either from US or other developed
countries. This create more unsatisfactory situation as one found the most successful
rated healthcare systems of world unsafe. This review article has tried to provide the adequate
and important information about medication errors and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) prevailing
throughout the world. The US report ‘To Err is Human’ refers to these studies but also
highlights that although they were undertaken over a decade ago, little responsive action
has been taken by health care providers. As a result, improving patient safety in health care
provision has become a priority in recent years.
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Medication errors, adverse events, Hospital, Patients
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